#gnus — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #gnus, aggregated by home.social.
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@paniash @oantolin I’ve been using #emacs #gnus for decades and contributed code to it. It’s a great experience and will work with gmail for instance. It has a ridiculous amount of features.
Sending e-mail takes seconds so it’s not particularly annoying that it happens in the main thread.
People have been talking about using the Emacs threads for parallelizing the article fetch, threading, scoring, and sorting for years but no one has done the work. That first time delay (a few seconds for larger groups, can be a minute or more for huge groups) may annoy you if you value performance very highly but I don’t think it’s particularly bad. It’s worth trying,
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@paniash @oantolin I’ve been using #emacs #gnus for decades and contributed code to it. It’s a great experience and will work with gmail for instance. It has a ridiculous amount of features.
Sending e-mail takes seconds so it’s not particularly annoying that it happens in the main thread.
People have been talking about using the Emacs threads for parallelizing the article fetch, threading, scoring, and sorting for years but no one has done the work. That first time delay (a few seconds for larger groups, can be a minute or more for huge groups) may annoy you if you value performance very highly but I don’t think it’s particularly bad. It’s worth trying,
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@paniash @oantolin I’ve been using #emacs #gnus for decades and contributed code to it. It’s a great experience and will work with gmail for instance. It has a ridiculous amount of features.
Sending e-mail takes seconds so it’s not particularly annoying that it happens in the main thread.
People have been talking about using the Emacs threads for parallelizing the article fetch, threading, scoring, and sorting for years but no one has done the work. That first time delay (a few seconds for larger groups, can be a minute or more for huge groups) may annoy you if you value performance very highly but I don’t think it’s particularly bad. It’s worth trying,
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@paniash @oantolin I’ve been using #emacs #gnus for decades and contributed code to it. It’s a great experience and will work with gmail for instance. It has a ridiculous amount of features.
Sending e-mail takes seconds so it’s not particularly annoying that it happens in the main thread.
People have been talking about using the Emacs threads for parallelizing the article fetch, threading, scoring, and sorting for years but no one has done the work. That first time delay (a few seconds for larger groups, can be a minute or more for huge groups) may annoy you if you value performance very highly but I don’t think it’s particularly bad. It’s worth trying,
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@paniash @oantolin I’ve been using #emacs #gnus for decades and contributed code to it. It’s a great experience and will work with gmail for instance. It has a ridiculous amount of features.
Sending e-mail takes seconds so it’s not particularly annoying that it happens in the main thread.
People have been talking about using the Emacs threads for parallelizing the article fetch, threading, scoring, and sorting for years but no one has done the work. That first time delay (a few seconds for larger groups, can be a minute or more for huge groups) may annoy you if you value performance very highly but I don’t think it’s particularly bad. It’s worth trying,
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@oantolin I use both manual and adaptive scoring to manage large email volumes very effectively. The defaults for adaptive scoring are usually okay, at least to start with. Give it a shot. It doesn't affect the actual emails at all [*], only the order in which they are presented.
[*] Edit: not quite true as you need to be careful with your settings for expiring articles in case a low score leads to an article being expired.
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@oantolin I use both manual and adaptive scoring to manage large email volumes very effectively. The defaults for adaptive scoring are usually okay, at least to start with. Give it a shot. It doesn't affect the actual emails at all [*], only the order in which they are presented.
[*] Edit: not quite true as you need to be careful with your settings for expiring articles in case a low score leads to an article being expired.
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@oantolin I use both manual and adaptive scoring to manage large email volumes very effectively. The defaults for adaptive scoring are usually okay, at least to start with. Give it a shot. It doesn't affect the actual emails at all [*], only the order in which they are presented.
[*] Edit: not quite true as you need to be careful with your settings for expiring articles in case a low score leads to an article being expired.
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@oantolin I use both manual and adaptive scoring to manage large email volumes very effectively. The defaults for adaptive scoring are usually okay, at least to start with. Give it a shot. It doesn't affect the actual emails at all [*], only the order in which they are presented.
[*] Edit: not quite true as you need to be careful with your settings for expiring articles in case a low score leads to an article being expired.
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@oantolin I use both manual and adaptive scoring to manage large email volumes very effectively. The defaults for adaptive scoring are usually okay, at least to start with. Give it a shot. It doesn't affect the actual emails at all [*], only the order in which they are presented.
[*] Edit: not quite true as you need to be careful with your settings for expiring articles in case a low score leads to an article being expired.
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Completing-read on all URLs from existing post including article link?
Gnus does this via `w` (gnus-summary-browse-url) in article buffer.
Does elfeed show more details for a feed? (i mean metadata)
One thing I shifted to gnus (with feedbase) was unified look for feeds and email and more info on `t` (gnus-summary-toggle-header) -
Completing-read on all URLs from existing post including article link?
Gnus does this via `w` (gnus-summary-browse-url) in article buffer.
Does elfeed show more details for a feed? (i mean metadata)
One thing I shifted to gnus (with feedbase) was unified look for feeds and email and more info on `t` (gnus-summary-toggle-header) -
Completing-read on all URLs from existing post including article link?
Gnus does this via `w` (gnus-summary-browse-url) in article buffer.
Does elfeed show more details for a feed? (i mean metadata)
One thing I shifted to gnus (with feedbase) was unified look for feeds and email and more info on `t` (gnus-summary-toggle-header) -
Completing-read on all URLs from existing post including article link?
Gnus does this via `w` (gnus-summary-browse-url) in article buffer.
Does elfeed show more details for a feed? (i mean metadata)
One thing I shifted to gnus (with feedbase) was unified look for feeds and email and more info on `t` (gnus-summary-toggle-header) -
Completing-read on all URLs from existing post including article link?
Gnus does this via `w` (gnus-summary-browse-url) in article buffer.
Does elfeed show more details for a feed? (i mean metadata)
One thing I shifted to gnus (with feedbase) was unified look for feeds and email and more info on `t` (gnus-summary-toggle-header) -
IIRC @publicvoit published something about following feeds using Gnus. I used to do that. The sticking point is that Emacs will hang while Gnus waits for a feed that may or may not connect or provide its data. elfeed was better about that, but I missed Gnus' adaptive scoring. I'd written an elfeed adaptive scoring package, but was never thrilled about using a separate package for feeds. So I'm giving Gnus and nnrss and nnatom another try.
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IIRC @publicvoit published something about following feeds using Gnus. I used to do that. The sticking point is that Emacs will hang while Gnus waits for a feed that may or may not connect or provide its data. elfeed was better about that, but I missed Gnus' adaptive scoring. I'd written an elfeed adaptive scoring package, but was never thrilled about using a separate package for feeds. So I'm giving Gnus and nnrss and nnatom another try.
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IIRC @publicvoit published something about following feeds using Gnus. I used to do that. The sticking point is that Emacs will hang while Gnus waits for a feed that may or may not connect or provide its data. elfeed was better about that, but I missed Gnus' adaptive scoring. I'd written an elfeed adaptive scoring package, but was never thrilled about using a separate package for feeds. So I'm giving Gnus and nnrss and nnatom another try.
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IIRC @publicvoit published something about following feeds using Gnus. I used to do that. The sticking point is that Emacs will hang while Gnus waits for a feed that may or may not connect or provide its data. elfeed was better about that, but I missed Gnus' adaptive scoring. I'd written an elfeed adaptive scoring package, but was never thrilled about using a separate package for feeds. So I'm giving Gnus and nnrss and nnatom another try.
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IIRC @publicvoit published something about following feeds using Gnus. I used to do that. The sticking point is that Emacs will hang while Gnus waits for a feed that may or may not connect or provide its data. elfeed was better about that, but I missed Gnus' adaptive scoring. I'd written an elfeed adaptive scoring package, but was never thrilled about using a separate package for feeds. So I'm giving Gnus and nnrss and nnatom another try.
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Browsing URLs from Gnus Summary buffer https://davemq.github.io/emacs/gnus/url/2026/04/29/visiting-urls-from-gnus-summary.html
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Browsing URLs from Gnus Summary buffer https://davemq.github.io/emacs/gnus/url/2026/04/29/visiting-urls-from-gnus-summary.html
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Browsing URLs from Gnus Summary buffer https://davemq.github.io/emacs/gnus/url/2026/04/29/visiting-urls-from-gnus-summary.html
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Browsing URLs from Gnus Summary buffer https://davemq.github.io/emacs/gnus/url/2026/04/29/visiting-urls-from-gnus-summary.html
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Browsing URLs from Gnus Summary buffer https://davemq.github.io/emacs/gnus/url/2026/04/29/visiting-urls-from-gnus-summary.html
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> ActivityPub has no notion of 'Title' so mastodon posts will all
> appear in the summary as just the date and time, no hint what it
> says until you click it.If you use gnus, you can do something about this. See below.
> The second point is interface. For me it was trying to use #Emacs
> #Gnus to read early Fediverse, and it wasn't feasible.It is feasible, just. If you're willing to hack a little, check out my blog post:
https://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucecesf/blog/20250812.html
I have an update to one of the functions described there which I will blog about soon (hopefully) but contact me should you wish to see the update sooner.
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> ActivityPub has no notion of 'Title' so mastodon posts will all
> appear in the summary as just the date and time, no hint what it
> says until you click it.If you use gnus, you can do something about this. See below.
> The second point is interface. For me it was trying to use #Emacs
> #Gnus to read early Fediverse, and it wasn't feasible.It is feasible, just. If you're willing to hack a little, check out my blog post:
https://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucecesf/blog/20250812.html
I have an update to one of the functions described there which I will blog about soon (hopefully) but contact me should you wish to see the update sooner.
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> ActivityPub has no notion of 'Title' so mastodon posts will all
> appear in the summary as just the date and time, no hint what it
> says until you click it.If you use gnus, you can do something about this. See below.
> The second point is interface. For me it was trying to use #Emacs
> #Gnus to read early Fediverse, and it wasn't feasible.It is feasible, just. If you're willing to hack a little, check out my blog post:
https://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucecesf/blog/20250812.html
I have an update to one of the functions described there which I will blog about soon (hopefully) but contact me should you wish to see the update sooner.
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> ActivityPub has no notion of 'Title' so mastodon posts will all
> appear in the summary as just the date and time, no hint what it
> says until you click it.If you use gnus, you can do something about this. See below.
> The second point is interface. For me it was trying to use #Emacs
> #Gnus to read early Fediverse, and it wasn't feasible.It is feasible, just. If you're willing to hack a little, check out my blog post:
https://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucecesf/blog/20250812.html
I have an update to one of the functions described there which I will blog about soon (hopefully) but contact me should you wish to see the update sooner.
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> ActivityPub has no notion of 'Title' so mastodon posts will all
> appear in the summary as just the date and time, no hint what it
> says until you click it.If you use gnus, you can do something about this. See below.
> The second point is interface. For me it was trying to use #Emacs
> #Gnus to read early Fediverse, and it wasn't feasible.It is feasible, just. If you're willing to hack a little, check out my blog post:
https://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucecesf/blog/20250812.html
I have an update to one of the functions described there which I will blog about soon (hopefully) but contact me should you wish to see the update sooner.
