newsgrouper web access

[Adrian Caspersz]

Hi all, HNY

Just come across this, a hobbyist free effort that in a pinch might give
some adhoc newsgroup access?

https://newsgrouper.org.uk/

[Andy Burns]

Post by Adrian Caspersz
Just come across this, a hobbyist free effort that in a pinch might give
 some adhoc newsgroup access?
https://newsgrouper.org.uk/

The author is concerned that the Online Safety Act might make it
non-viable to provide the service.

[jon]

Post by Andy Burns

Post by Adrian Caspersz
Just come across this, a hobbyist free effort that in a pinch might give
 some adhoc newsgroup access?
https://newsgrouper.org.uk/

The author is concerned that the Online Safety Act might make it
non-viable to provide the service.

I can't see the print white on very pale cyan.

[Andy Burns]

Post by jon
I can't see the print white on very pale cyan.

I don't get any white text, mostly black on duck-egg blue, or black on
buttermilk, it would benefit from a choice of css themes

[Ian Jackson]

Post by Andy Burns

Post by jon
I can't see the print white on very pale cyan.

I don't get any white text, mostly black on duck-egg blue, or black on

buttermilk, it would benefit from a choice of css themes

Try using the mouse to highlight the text.

[wasbit]

Post by Andy Burns

Post by jon
I can't see the print white on very pale cyan.

I don't get any white text, mostly black on duck-egg blue, or black on
buttermilk, it would benefit from a choice of css themes

Black print on a duck egg blue background here as well using Pale Moon &
Firefox.

[Colin Macleod]

Post by Andy Burns

Post by jon
I can't see the print white on very pale cyan.

I don't get any white text, mostly black on duck-egg blue, or black on
buttermilk, it would benefit from a choice of css themes

Ok, /by popular demand/ I'm looking at adding some options in the
Preferences page to change the colours :-)

[Colin Macleod]

Post by Colin Macleod

Post by Andy Burns

Post by jon
I can't see the print white on very pale cyan.

I don't get any white text, mostly black on duck-egg blue, or black on
buttermilk, it would benefit from a choice of css themes

Ok, /by popular demand/ I'm looking at adding some options in the
Preferences page to change the colours :-)

This is now done, I added a section at the end of the Preferences page where
you can select whatever colours you like for the text and the background.

[Andy Burns]

Post by Colin Macleod

Post by Colin Macleod
Ok, /by popular demand/ I'm looking at adding some options in the
Preferences page to change the colours :-)

This is now done, I added a section at the end of the Preferences page where
you can select whatever colours you like for the text and the background.

Custom colours now work, I presume unrelated, but I can't access this
group now

Error Info

Tcl-Webserver/3.5.3 FOS
Tcl version 9.0b2
Webmaster: ***@yahoo.com

wrong # args: should be "heading params"
while executing
"heading"
(procedure "/do/group_search" line 32)
invoked from within
"/do/group_search 0 d-i-y 1 {}"
invoked from within
"catch $cmd result"
invoked from within
"Direct_Respond $sock $code $result $type"
(procedure "DirectDomain" line 29)
invoked from within
"DirectDomain /do sock55ecd3b41890 /group_search"
("eval" body line 1)
invoked from within
"eval $Url(command,$prefix) [list $sock $suffix]"

[David]

Post by Andy Burns

Post by Colin Macleod

Post by Colin Macleod
Ok, /by popular demand/ I'm looking at adding some options in the
Preferences page to change the colours :-)

This is now done, I added a section at the end of the Preferences page
where you can select whatever colours you like for the text and the
background.

Custom colours now work, I presume unrelated, but I can't access this
group now
Error Info
wrong # args: should be "heading params"
while executing
"heading"
(procedure "/do/group_search" line 32)
invoked from within
"/do/group_search 0 d-i-y 1 {}"
invoked from within
"catch $cmd result"
invoked from within
"Direct_Respond $sock $code $result $type"
(procedure "DirectDomain" line 29) invoked from within
"DirectDomain /do sock55ecd3b41890 /group_search"
("eval" body line 1)
invoked from within
"eval $Url(command,$prefix) [list $sock $suffix]"

I have reported an issue accessing uk.d-i-y with my newly registered user.
However I thing that my error message (after trying to post a debug
report) may have related to the debug report.

Cheers



Dave R

[Colin Macleod]

Post by David

Post by Andy Burns
Error Info

....

Post by David
I have reported an issue accessing uk.d-i-y with my newly registered user.
However I thing that my error message (after trying to post a debug
report) may have related to the debug report.

Sorry about that, it's fixed now.

[Adding the colour choice stuff lead me to reorganise the storage of
user preferences, which then broke the group search which I had not
thought of re-testing.... :-( ]

[David]

Post by David

Post by Andy Burns

Post by Colin Macleod

Post by Colin Macleod
Ok, /by popular demand/ I'm looking at adding some options in the
Preferences page to change the colours :-)

This is now done, I added a section at the end of the Preferences page
where you can select whatever colours you like for the text and the
background.

Custom colours now work, I presume unrelated, but I can't access this
group now
Error Info
wrong # args: should be "heading params"
while executing
"heading"
(procedure "/do/group_search" line 32)
invoked from within
"/do/group_search 0 d-i-y 1 {}"
invoked from within
"catch $cmd result"
invoked from within
"Direct_Respond $sock $code $result $type"
(procedure "DirectDomain" line 29) invoked from within
"DirectDomain /do sock55ecd3b41890 /group_search"
("eval" body line 1)
invoked from within
"eval $Url(command,$prefix) [list $sock $suffix]"

I have reported an issue accessing uk.d-i-y with my newly registered user.
However I thing that my error message (after trying to post a debug
report) may have related to the debug report.

Allegedly now fixed. :-)

It will be a while before I can test.

Cheers



Dave R

[Colin Macleod]

Post by jon
I can't see the print white on very pale cyan.

Hi, I run the Newsgrouper site. I don't set the text colour to white,
and no-one else has complained about that problem, so I think it must
be something specific to your browser - what are you using?

[jon]

Post by Colin Macleod

Post by jon
I can't see the print white on very pale cyan.

Hi, I run the Newsgrouper site. I don't set the text colour to white,
and no-one else has complained about that problem, so I think it must be
something specific to your browser - what are you using?

Opera

[Colin Macleod]

Post by Colin Macleod

Post by jon
I can't see the print white on very pale cyan.

Hi, I run the Newsgrouper site. I don't set the text colour to white,
and no-one else has complained about that problem, so I think it must be
something specific to your browser - what are you using?

Opera

Interesting, I had a report from an Opera user a few days ago about
form field positions being screwy, which I fixed.

I've now updated the code to explicitly set the text colour to black,
I had been just relying on it defaulting to black. Please try again
and see if that fixes your problem.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Post by Colin Macleod

Post by jon
I can't see the print white on very pale cyan.

Hi, I run the Newsgrouper site. I don't set the text colour to white,
and no-one else has complained about that problem, so I think it must be
something specific to your browser - what are you using?

Opera

All browsers and mail clients seem to allow so much choice in what color
to display if no color specified, what color to display if color IS
specified and so on..

[David]

Post by Colin Macleod

Post by jon
I can't see the print white on very pale cyan.

Hi, I run the Newsgrouper site. I don't set the text colour to white,
and no-one else has complained about that problem, so I think it must be
something specific to your browser - what are you using?

This looks as though it could solve the issue of lack of a decent
Newsreader under Android.

Will give it a try.

Thanks for your efforts.

Cheers


Dave R

[Graham.]

Piaohong Usenet Newsreader which I am using is far from perfect,
but far more usable than Newsgrouper IMHO.

[Colin Macleod]

Post by Graham.
Piaohong Usenet Newsreader which I am using is far from perfect,
but far more usable than Newsgrouper IMHO.

Hi, if you can point to any areas where Newsgrouper's useability
could be improved, I would be interested to hear about them.

[Colin Macleod]

Post by Andy Burns

Post by Adrian Caspersz
Just come across this, a hobbyist free effort that in a pinch might give
 some adhoc newsgroup access?
https://newsgrouper.org.uk/

The author is concerned that the Online Safety Act might make it
non-viable to provide the service.

Yes, it's my site. Some people running small sites are treating the OSA
as the end of the world, others think the panic is overblown. I'm hoping
some useful guidance for small sites will appear soon.

[jon]

Post by Colin Macleod

Post by Andy Burns

Post by Adrian Caspersz
Just come across this, a hobbyist free effort that in a pinch might give
 some adhoc newsgroup access?
https://newsgrouper.org.uk/

The author is concerned that the Online Safety Act might make it
non-viable to provide the service.

Yes, it's my site. Some people running small sites are treating the OSA
as the end of the world, others think the panic is overblown. I'm
hoping some useful guidance for small sites will appear soon.

Yes the text is white on black now, because I am running Opera in 'Dark
Mode'

Thank you.