• Re: trn discussions on github

    From anthk@anthk@openbsd.home to news.software.readers on Thu Jul 10 08:04:47 2025
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    On 2025-04-09, Pluted Pup <plutedpup@outlook.com> wrote:
    On Mon, 27 Jan 2025 10:15:11 -0800, Richard wrote:

    [Please do not mail me a copy of your followup]

    Hi,

    I've enabled discussions on my trn github repository:
    <https://github.com/LegalizeAdulthood/trn/discussions>

    I will also continue to monitor this newsgroup, but github discussions
    are a good way to interact with the work being done to produce trn 5.0
    <https://github.com/LegalizeAdulthood/trn/milestone/1>.

    The plan is to release 5.0 by the end of 2025.

    Any chance of running trn on Mac?

    I tried slrn last decade and it could post but
    was not useful as a reader, loading too slow.



    That's odd; I run slrn on an n270 netbook with 1GB of RAM and it
    runs screamly fast, I have newsgroups with over 10000 articles
    and I never wait over a second.
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  • From legalize+jeeves@legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) to news.software.readers on Thu Jul 10 17:00:56 2025
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    anthk <anthk@openbsd.home> spake the secret code <slrn106se4d.2l3c.anthk@openbsd.home> thusly:

    On 2025-04-09, Pluted Pup <plutedpup@outlook.com> wrote:
    I tried slrn last decade and it could post but
    was not useful as a reader, loading too slow.



    That's odd; I run slrn on an n270 netbook with 1GB of RAM and it
    runs screamly fast, I have newsgroups with over 10000 articles
    and I never wait over a second.

    I was experiencing a massive slowdown with trn recently and then it
    went away and I concluded that it was the server and not the
    newsreader software itself.

    That said, there's still plenty of room to increase newsgroup
    processing in trn as it does everything synchronously on a single
    thread.
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  • From anthk@anthk@openbsd.home to news.software.readers on Fri Jul 11 17:55:22 2025
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    On 2025-07-10, Richard <legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com> wrote:
    [Please do not mail me a copy of your followup]

    anthk <anthk@openbsd.home> spake the secret code
    <slrn106se4d.2l3c.anthk@openbsd.home> thusly:

    On 2025-04-09, Pluted Pup <plutedpup@outlook.com> wrote:
    I tried slrn last decade and it could post but
    was not useful as a reader, loading too slow.



    That's odd; I run slrn on an n270 netbook with 1GB of RAM and it
    runs screamly fast, I have newsgroups with over 10000 articles
    and I never wait over a second.

    I was experiencing a massive slowdown with trn recently and then it
    went away and I concluded that it was the server and not the
    newsreader software itself.

    That said, there's still plenty of room to increase newsgroup
    processing in trn as it does everything synchronously on a single
    thread.

    I just use slrnpull and then read everything locally, it's very handy.
    As a plus you can use any client pointing to the slrn spool.
    In my machine slrn opens >10000 articles in less than a second.
    Atom n270, 1GB of RAM, no SSD (spinning disk).
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