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HyperNews is free community software, with a long evolution behind and accordingly with a great living usergroup.

Currently the main developer asks for support, so it appears to be appropriate to take a longer copy for the benefit of all involved parties:

Copy from the original site:

Hello to all HyperNews supporters.

I'm writing to ask for your advice about whether I should renew the HyperNews development effort or just let it continue to slide into oblivion.

First a little history. I started HyperNews when there were no others - HyperNews was the first web-based forum system that became possible when CGI was made available. I was just in the right place at the right time. There are now many very good forum system, and I am actually happy to see this state of affairs because one of the big reasons I wanted to create this kind of software was to encourage people to communicate and build communities on the web. I'm not trying to take credit for all the collaboration efforts that followed because I got my inspiration from other online systems before the web, as I am sure many others did. But I hope HyperNews helped to inspire a few efforts that otherwise would have languished. In any case, I have no regrets, regardless whether HyperNews continues now.

At this juncture I have a serious choice to make, and then again, I may not have much choice at all. I've been fully occupied with excellent jobs the past four years since leaving NCSA and moving to the Boston area, but now, like many others in this industry, I am finding myself out of work, and the recruiters that used to call me every other week have been silent. Basically, no one is hiring.

Thus, I will soon have plenty of time on my hands, and rather than spinning my wheels all around town trying to find someone who might employ me, this seems like the perfect opportunity to employ myself, with your help, and in the process, I'll be helping you meet your needs as well.

I have to ask, as you should also, whether it is worthwhile continuing with HyperNews in the face of all the competing systems. There might be many reasons that HyperNews is still viable.

End Copy From The Original Site

And here comes a copy of my public DiiGo annotation:

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By making a clip of the arguments of the author of Meatball:Hypernews, we can support him, giving him widest exposure. Diigo members please amplify the support by your annotations, that can be clipped and copied in your favorite forum.

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 I have to ask, as you should also, whether it is worthwhile continuing with HyperNews in the face of all the competing  
 systems. There might be many reasons that HyperNews is still viable.

    * There are several large sites that use HyperNews, including iVillage.com and Advance.net, and new installations are still going up.
    * It's open source (modulo restriction on proprietary variants; new code will be GPLed).
    * Threads are more popular now that many people have experienced the benefits.
    * Two-way email gateway is found in few other systems.
    * Collaboration systems are very broad, touching on every kind of work and play that people do. There are still market opportunities.
    * The world needs collaboration systems even more now than before.

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The author recommends the general use of Diigo annotation in (not only) wiki communities. As soon as everybody uses annotations, we need not copy down them anymore. Of course MeatballWiki:HyperNews is socially bookmarked too and invites contributions on the base wiki-level as well as on the annotation level.

The masterpage of this mature community is [Hypernews].

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