On 22 Jul 2013, Robert Macy wrote:

I go to groups, all are listed. highlight a specific group,
like this one. everything comes in, EXCEPT for the most
important part, the list of postings! Shows all is in and
done, so there is no more activity. Refresh, and keep
getting the same screen - blank where the list of postings
should be

Using Opera 9.64 on Win98 [and very happy except for this
tiny disadvantage, so don't tell me to change to Some other
browser.]

Wow! That's amazing. I had that problem ever since Google did
their last major upgrade of groups perhaps a year ago. Running
Firefox 3.6 and 2 I found that whenever I went to a Usenet
group a yellow box would pop down from under the search bar
telling me I was using an unsupported browser and recommending
I upgrade to (surprise, surprise) Google Chrome. Then it would
just sit there with the "Loading..." box, nothing ever
appearing where the topic list should be. It offered for me to
switch to the old version, but when I selected this option it
would just sit at another "Loading..." box.

I only ever used Groups for looking through old posts anyway
(although that has been extremely useful for that in the
past), so I decided I'd just have to stick to posts I archived
myself with my Newsreader.

Later on a user in another Newsgroup posted a link to
narkive.com, which has replaced Groups for me despite its lack
of an extensive back archive and (in my opinion) a rather
clunky interface. If you want to use it to look up a specific
Newsgroup (a surprisingly hard thing to do from the homepage,
as far as I can see), simply type the location of the group
before "narkive.com". eg.
http://microsoft.public.win98.gen-di...n.narkive.com/
Notice that the Underscore is replaced with a Hyphen.

Anyhow, the cause of my initial exclamation was that, for one
thing I am surprised that an old Opera version running on 98
has worked where old Firefox failed. But mainly, it was a
reaction to me just trying to get onto Groups with Firefox
3.6, and it working! I can browse topics, read posts,
everything I should be able to do. The compatibility message
is gone too.

So somehow Google switched compatibility away from you and
towards me. Strange.

It might be worth waiting to see if any more changes happen
that might bring back your Opera compatibility, but I'd
suggest strongly that you start using a proper Usenet server
anyway. If for some reason though you still want to live in
the Web and Google has deserted you, I think Narkive allows
posting by members.

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