What would it take to get trn on the web?

[nancylebov]

It seems to be technically possible now that Javascript is in common use. It would make long discussions easier to read and navigate. I believe that making long discussions more feasible would make the web a better place, and killfiles might be a noticeable win too.

I've mentioned this, and been told that it wouldn't be that hard to write, but it's too boring.

The question has been raised of whether money would make it interesting, and if so, how much. Any opinions?

(I put this in terms of trn because that's what I was happy with. I don't know whether slrn has a huge advantage, or if it would be much more trouble to write.)

Comments

[kgbooklog.livejournal.com]

What I want is a RSS -> NNTP bridge. Then people can use whatever newsreader they want to read any blogs they want.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Are blogs and their comments formatted in a way which would make that reasonably easy?

[kgbooklog.livejournal.com]

Are blogs and their comments formatted in a way which would make that reasonably easy?

No and yes; the whole point of this is to override the web formatting. Many blogs (but not LJ) offer a feed for comments, which is enough to keep track of what you have and have not read (and it's usually trivial to figure out which blog entry each comment belongs to; more accurate threading than that is a much harder problem).