On Wed, May 04, 2022 at 05:36:09PM +0000, ethan@tilde.team wrote:

Hi all, I've been trying out nntp with slrn over ssh. It's been fun, but whenever I run ``slrn`` I'm greeted with a blank feed. I can read it after running ``slrn --create`` but I'd like for slrn to remember which posts I've read. I've followed the tilde.club tutorial (https://tilde.club/~joeld/slrn.html) but I'm not sure if I'm missing something.

That's a pretty terse introduction...

You need to subscribe to some groups, otherwise when you open slrn subsequently, it won't show you anything to read.

When you first run it with --create, it presents a list of available groups, but it won't do that the next time if you don't subscribe to anything, which I also found misleading when I did it last week.

Press 's' to subscribe to a group. slrn defaults to only showing unread messages (and logically, only groups containing unread messages). 'l' will toggle the view of groups with 0 unread messages.

Ant