Comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, that is. At least according to the rjk >spoolstats*. But yeah, CSIPGA is now one of the top-ten most active >newsgroups, at least by article count (we're #22 by user count, and
#11 by bytes per day).
** Seriously, the fall-off for Usenet is depressing.
Really? I've always found the less traveled paths to be the most >interesting.
On Mon, 30 Dec 2024 20:28:21 -0500, Rin Stowleigh
<rstowleigh@x-nospam-x.com> wrote:
Really? I've always found the less traveled paths to be the most >>interesting.
There's the less traveled path and then there is the path so overgrown
that it doesn't really exist anymore and so no one is on it. I think
that is where this newsgroup is headed.
** Seriously, the fall-off for Usenet is depressing. According to the
above stats, in the last 7 days, in ALL of the groups monitored, there
were only 949 articles in total and even at the most OPTIMISTIC count,
less than 1000 users who actually post. It almost makes me wish Google
would re-implement their newsfeed again...
On Tue, 31 Dec 2024 17:23:23 -0000 (UTC), rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca
(Ross Ridge) wrote:
Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
** Seriously, the fall-off for Usenet is depressing. According to the
above stats, in the last 7 days, in ALL of the groups monitored, there
were only 949 articles in total and even at the most OPTIMISTIC count,
less than 1000 users who actually post. It almost makes me wish Google
would re-implement their newsfeed again...
Just think of how awesome it would be to a have a BBS with those nummbers.
There was a period when I had to access Usenet through a BBS.
_Finding_ a BBS that offered the service was a challenge enough. But
using it was different than I normally did. You'd download the latest
updates to the spool, then go offline to compose your messages, then
have to reconnect to send your comments. Which doesn't sound that bad,
except Usenet was so busy that in the time that you spent offline
thinking up a response, another 500 posts got added to the spool. ;-)
You really had to pick-n-choose your threads back then.
On Tue, 31 Dec 2024 15:04:53 -0800, Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
wrote:
Most of that google trafic wasn't legit. Probably only me and the 3rd
to last person in alt.dreams who just dropped it after.
Yeah. It should be pointed out that quoted stats only apply to big-8 newsgroups, so all of the traffic in the ALT.* hierachy isn't counted.
And there /are/ some quite active newsgroups
[Well, "active" from the perspective of 2025, not 1994]
in the ALT.* hierarchy that have nothing to do with porn or binaries.
So the rjk spoolstats aren't a complete picture.
But even if they triple the current "legitimate" (e.g., not stuff
that's likely to get a Usenet server shut-down) traffic, that's still
an insignificant number of users and traffic compared to any other
forum service.
CSIPGA was actually fairly lucky with regards to google-groups spam
(well, at least until the end when we got an unusual amount of it). I
don't know if it's just that this group wasn't worth targeting, or if
the spam-filters were working, but most of what we saw from google was
the errant user responding to a twenty-year old post. Which was sort
of fun in its own right, since it gave us something new (old!) to talk
about ;-)
It's actually been too much for me to read everything since I got busy
in October.
Well, there's the problem. Put aside all those other things that are
keeping you from Usenet. You gotta set your priorities, people! ;-)
On Fri, 3 Jan 2025 01:10:05 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
On Tue, 31 Dec 2024 15:04:53 -0800, Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
wrote:
It's actually been too much for me to read everything since I got busy >>>>in October.
I feel that too, I've kinda been going thru a depression and seeing 400
new posts is insane
Just killfile spallshurgenson@*.* and so many problems go away ;-)
Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 15:31 this Friday (GMT): >> On Fri, 3 Jan 2025 01:10:05 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 >><candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
On Tue, 31 Dec 2024 15:04:53 -0800, Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
wrote:
It's actually been too much for me to read everything since I got busy >>>>>in October.
I feel that too, I've kinda been going thru a depression and seeing 400 >>>new posts is insane
Just killfile spallshurgenson@*.* and so many problems go away ;-)
I'd never killfile your messages!
Comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, that is. At least according to the rjk spoolstats*. But yeah, CSIPGA is now one of the top-ten most active newsgroups, at least by article count (we're #22 by user count, and
#11 by bytes per day).
Which really says more about the decline of Usenet** as a whole than
how popular this newsgroup is, although there /has/ been a measured
increase in posts here over the past few years (and this month in
particular, for some reason. Can't imagine why ;-). But six years ago
CSIPGA was #85, so I'm not complaining.
CSIPGA: it's one of the hot destinations of Usenet again. ;-P
Well it has become more or less the last active group regarding pcgaming, the others are still there, but not very active!
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