From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs for forums? Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2018 22:27:27 -0700 Message-ID: <87o9flue68.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87y3eryk80.fsf@openmail.cc> <874lhfop7f.fsf@127.0.0.1> <87in5vbzv3.fsf@openmail.cc> <8736wycp8h.fsf@openmail.cc> <9FC04800-4439-485E-A718-03566E9814E3@gmail.com> <87y3epb6xd.fsf@openmail.cc> <87r2khaxmg.fsf@openmail.cc> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1530854947 3538 195.159.176.226 (6 Jul 2018 05:29:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 05:29:07 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 06 07:29:03 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fbJIl-0000pT-53 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2018 07:29:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55845 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fbJKs-000648-93 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2018 01:31:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60315) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fbJKQ-00063y-9Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2018 01:30:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fbJKL-0007lJ-OQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2018 01:30:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=33971 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fbJKL-0007eb-GP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2018 01:30:41 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fbJI9-0008WK-Ko for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2018 07:28:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:IxYj+PSgoD2qIXlqeRrA1egbJJ8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117371 Archived-At: James Taylor writes: > Eric Abrahamsen writes: > >> I would also like this. For fun I looked at the Arch Linux bbs, which >> turns out to use something called FluxBB, which turns out to have had a >> couple abortive attempts at adding a rest API, the most recent of which >> fizzled out in 2016. Oh well. >> >> Perhaps Hacker News would be a good (relatively simple) first testing >> ground. >> >> Eric > > Hmm, maybe. I tried a login, and account creation and login are possible > already with EWW on Hacker News, though I don't know if posting can be > done. Paul Graham sure saw me comin'. All I know is, if I've got a HN client on my Android phone, it should be possible to do via Emacs. I'd be looking to add this to Gnus in particular, though, not EWW in general. > As a side note, I'm very glad to not be the only one who thought this > would be nice. It's comforting to know that, if there were an elisp > hacker crazy enough to try a forum package, there wouldn't be a > userbase of 1. ;) I think we could get four, at least :)