All of the above should be considered pre-alpha quality, more like a whiteboard of insanity. If, despite all these caveats, you'd still like to check out the spool for yourself, point your newsreader at nntp-test.soylentnews.org. There are three groups on the server, soylentnews.discuss, just for general discussion for folks who come by, a test group for testing posting, and the spool itself at soylentnews.test.mainpage.
I look forward to hearing your thoughts and comments below.
[UPDATE: Corrected typos and added links]
(Score: 1) by tonyPick on Tuesday July 22 2014, @07:42AM
Hell, keep doing the export regularly and I'll use it for reading as it is right now, bugs and all.
One question I do have is: how to handle/report on moderation? Particularly with AC postings
I'm having vague flashbacks to the 90's of long (long) kill-lists to filter out the spam, and while that works for registered users it would be nice to identify Anonymous posts that hit decent moderation and handle those separately from the "-1" junk/spam/troll posts.
Short of special casing out high positive mod AC posts and re-posting these under a different username I can't immediately think of any easy way to do this though (and that'd be possible to gamify anyway).