@ericsfraga@kensanata@kyonshi Oh yes, the Great Renaming. I remember it well. I also remember having to change my entire feed file as a result which was a bit of a pain in the ass.
The funny thing is that we actually deal with more individual elements/posts with the modern "firehose theory" designs that completely ignore useful tools like threading, score files, well-designed filters, and all the rest. We are using objectively worse tools to dig through objectively more content.
I actually quite resent this fact.
I have a strong suspicion that if you were to re-implement RFC 822 as a social media protocol and give us a clean, non-Emacs version of GNUS or SLRN to interface with it, you could spawn a renaissance of social media design.
Which means – it will never happen.
I sometimes miss rec.games.mecha from the old days. Flame wars and all. Rec.games.frp.misc, maybe somewhat less so.