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Neonmodem: TUI for Lobsters, HN, etc.

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A lot of linux environments include Lynx.

It's a text-based web browser.

It's possible you already have Lynx installed, and it'd give similar results (but is general purpose for any website)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)

links or elinks are also available and often render better.

w3m is also available and also pretty good (but doesn't appear to have the lovely colour style system that Lynx has.)

and w3m has w3m-img if you want to get just one step more graphical while still being fundamentally a tui (it does terminal/character cell layout, then uses the WINDOWID to stuff images on the terminal screen. Probably the kind of thing wayland doesn't allow? :-)

(hmm, the neonmodem FAQ mentions it has an image rendering feature too, to come full circle)

w3m also supports image display through the sixel, kitty, and mlterm image protocols; these should also work on wayland with terminal emulators that support them (i.e. almost any terminal except vte or alacritty).

Nice!

The opening graphics gives me a bit of bluewave vibes.

Now if HN could implement qwk/rep support :)

What's qwk/rep?

Message protocol used by BBS systems (before the internet)

They seem to have spent a ton of time on their website, why link to the github with no information? https://neonmodem.com/

Maybe I'm in the minority here, but the GitHub readme seems to convey what the project actually is, with written text. On the website I just see a bunch of fancy images and marketing gabble, but it doesn't actually say what Neonmodem is on it.

When I checked an hour ago, the link went directly to a page that had the latest release and no readme. I checked twice, in two seperate browsers.

Now a readme does popup, so it makes more sense. No idea what was happening, but as nothing changed it seems to have been on my end.

all i see on the website is a download link and an animated screenshot, both of which are also on the github page along with a lot of other information. i even opened it up in incognito mode to see if one of my extensions was blocking stuff, but no, it really does look like a superminimal site to me.

The terminal is rotatable. It's kinda neat.

Is there a terminal only chat app with chat rooms?

I would love to use something like that.

irssi :)

not a big fan of irc to be honest

WeeChat[0] (or any IRC client, really, but weechat is nice) with Bitlbee[1] supports a metric assload of services, albeit by pretending they're IRC (which does work - I spent years in weechat/irssi with bitlbee talking to various people on disparate services.)

Or if you're just after Telegram/WhatsApp, nchat[2] is ok (I can vouch for the Telegram half only.)

[0] https://weechat.org

[1] https://wiki.bitlbee.org

[2] https://github.com/d99kris/nchat

Why not? IRC's a great protocol with both client and server implementations for every taste.

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