I still have an account. It is still useful for grabbing binary content like TV shows and movies, but that takes a lot of setup.

What I really miss are the discussions. There, it’s not as useful as it once was. All the groups still exist, but many are overrun by spam. It would be nice to see a solution that makes USENET actually useful again.

This might not be the official answer, but it feels like the right answer.

USENET. Actually useful USENET.

It’s very early. There are a lot of great ideas here, but also a lot of details yet to be worked out. Also lots of bugs.

I wasn’t on Reddit in the early days, but I expect it had problems too. I know twitter did.

If you’re a developer or have any skill in that area, I’d encourage you to contribute. If not, I’d ask for 2 things:

1. Have patience and a bit of grace with the devs, operators, and mods, especially in these early days.
2. Get active and talk about what you want and what’s not working for you.

This is your chance to help make “Thing n+1” better than “Thing n”. Chances like that don’t come around very often.