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indigenous canadian, recovering academic → game dev → interactive media artist with a penchant for dial-up modems, the 4o3 bbs scene, 1-bit art, trackers/mods, classic macs, and 80s and 90s gaming. curator of internet, canadian & gaming obscura.

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as some of you know, i'm writing a decentralized reddit-like, not- server/web client called .

i'm at the stage where i need to make some decisions about how discussion groups are organized on the network, and i'd like your thoughts.

an open question for , and users of yore:

  1. do you prefer nntp's hierarchical tree-style format for groups, e.g. alt.binaries.warez.ibm.pc.old, or reddit's flat organization of /r/mysubreddit? how about fidonet-style?

  2. what's a reasonable character limit on group names? e.g. reddit enforces a 21 character limit on subreddit titles.

vga256,
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by asking this question i've just realized that i've made a generational error:

those born < 1990, and who grew up with hierarchies like card catalogues, the dewey decimal system, MS-DOS, Usenet, and use nested folders for their data.

those born > 1990, who grew up with Google, and have a ~/My Documents/ folder with 19000 files.

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