Hello everyone.

Long story short: I want to make a NNTP client in Python.

Q: How is that better than slrn/tin/whatever else?
A: It's not.

Q: Then, why?
A: Because android currently has 0 (yes, zero) usable NNTP apps, and I
want one. At least it has termux, which supports python really well. As
for slrn/tin, I have no idea how to install them under termux.

There's this library called pynntp that looks pretty good, also I know
python and tried curses (it was a stupid little snake game, but anyway),
so this looks as my last chance to have net news in my phone.

At first I thought that I may use Kivy library (or is it framework, I
have no idea) and build a full .APK app with GUI, but their official instructions (that are to use a tool called buildozer) don't work for
me, I'm getting some kind of compilation errors while trying to compile
a simple hello world app copied from their website, so no luck there too.

I don't think I can do this alone, but with a little help I think I
could try.

Thoughts, anyone?
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Well, if anyone is interested you can find me on IRC (both tilde.chat
and libera.chat, nickname is same as here), but I tried some other
options and turns out termux runs neomutt really well, also I could
compile tin (but I couldn't fin a wat to make it cache news for offline reading) and slrn (with slrnpull/ssl support).

I'm not used to slrn at all and I guess sometimes it's a bit weird (by
default it deletes all read messages, so I guess I'll have to set it to
never mark articles as read, etc.), but for now I see no point in making
my own nntp client anymore. For now.

If I ever want to have a «pet project», or just want to do some casual coding, I might come back to this idea, but the problem of having a
working news reader on android (using termux) seems to be solved for
now.
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On Tue, 12 Dec 2023 20:59:09 +0600
vort3 <vort3@tilde.club> wrote:

Hello everyone.

Long story short: I want to make a NNTP client in Python.

That┤s so much work, you probably have no idea. :) Wanna a saner
project? Write an NNTP server.
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Patricia Ferreira <pferreira@example.com> writes:

That´s so much work, you probably have no idea. :) Wanna a saner
project? Write an NNTP server.

Simpler NNTP server? I heard about one a few days ago, but that cannot
peer with neighbours. That kills all the fun, then even mailing lists
would be a more potent medium.
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On Fri, 08 Mar 2024 00:58:27 +0042
yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> wrote:

Patricia Ferreira <pferreira@example.com> writes:

That┤s so much work, you probably have no idea. :) Wanna a saner
project? Write an NNTP server.

Simpler NNTP server? I heard about one a few days ago, but that cannot
peer with neighbours. That kills all the fun, then even mailing lists
would be a more potent medium.

An NNTP server with no peering is actually an arbitrary number of
mailing lists---just better. A non-networked NNTP works very well for
a community of clients.
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Patricia Ferreira <pferreira@example.com> writes:

An NNTP server with no peering is actually an arbitrary number of
mailing lists---just better. A non-networked NNTP works very well for
a community of clients.

But in that case mailing lists might be even easier. Or even shared or
public IMAP folders.
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I do not bite, I just want to play.
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