Re: Emacs for forums?

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> writes:

> Count me in as someone who would appreciate a non-native interface to
> forums. In addition to wanting an interface better integrated with
> Usenet and email, some of the forum sites have annoying properties it
> would be nice to paper over. Do any of these forum sites support
> REST-ish APIs? How do phone-based apps like Tapatalk communicate with
> these forum sites? Are they just glorified web scrapers?

I would also like this. For fun I looked at the Arch Linux bbs, which
turns out to use something called FluxBB, which turns out to have had a
couple abortive attempts at adding a rest API, the most recent of which
fizzled out in 2016. Oh well.

Perhaps Hacker News would be a good (relatively simple) first testing
ground.

Eric