{"id":645,"date":"2005-01-03T20:59:47","date_gmt":"2005-01-03T23:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=645"},"modified":"2005-01-03T20:59:47","modified_gmt":"2005-01-03T23:59:47","slug":"google-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=645","title":{"rendered":"Google groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>A<\/span>s a frequent user of UseNet (still), I must say that the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/groups-beta.google.com\/\">beta of Google Groups<\/a> totally <em>sucks<\/em>.\n<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s the layout. Check for example the initial layout when going to a <a href=\"http:\/\/groups-beta.google.com\/group\/comp.databases.postgresql.hackers\">group<\/a> (or in UseNet lingo &#8216;newsgroup&#8217;). Now switch to a message with multiple replies, for example <a href=\"http:\/\/groups-beta.google.com\/group\/comp.databases.postgresql.hackers\/browse_frm\/thread\/76aabae77119c05e\/58c142af6a3e08f4#58c142af6a3e08f4\">here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s completely <em>inconsistent<\/em>. In the last view, it&#8217;s hard to tell <em>where<\/em> a message actually ends. Yeah, probably somewhere around the name of the author. I&#8217;m trying to remember what it looked like initially, but I&#8217;m sure it was better than this <em>crap<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a frequent user of UseNet (still), I must say that the latest beta of Google Groups totally sucks. I think it&#8217;s the layout. Check for example the initial layout when going to a group (or in UseNet lingo &#8216;newsgroup&#8217;). &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=645\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}