I am rather grateful for the feedback, input, and an in general friendly community around here. Helps when sinking back into old ways of getting web done.

usenet could be if there is an audience that wants it. unfortunately, so far we have very weak activity of forums and chats. there is not even a hint of creating another service that will be idle.

we have telegram chats, we have irc chats, we have two forums, we have a web chat, there are web chats for users on sites, we have mail, website hosting, and of course we are not limited to this, this is written on the main page of the hosting

as you already understood the most important task is to create a large community that will already in one form or another go like a wave to one or another service. it is important to increase the number of users, and only then offer them something else.

in order to create a service, you need users who are ready for it. I have already gone through the option "hey! look, IRC chat! come in!". then I had to explain what it is, write articles, literally lure people into this chat, it did not end well. as there were several people, so it is. I need to check all the services every day to see if someone is writing, answer questions. other users of the community do not want to take responsibility, so I think it is better to conduct a discourse on such topics when there is a person who will take responsibility for training, filling, inviting, PR, and so on.

https://tilde.wiki/NNTP

Notice only a primary.secondary partitioning, rather than primary.secondary.tertiary as with Usenet. This is largely a result of tilde.club's NNTP service being fairly small scale when compared to, well, Usenet. Also as it's a small scale community there is little real need for moderation and as my memories of Usenet itself is pretty fuzzy (I moved on from the 90's into PHP based forums, then on to Digg, Reddit, Discourse based solutions, etc.) So, sadly, I don't know how involved Moderation would be other than offending messages hitting the exchange server getting ejected so they're not distributed. Though the wiki article mentions that moderated groupings get routed through for review before distribution and I'm unsure on how practical that is. May require a 'be it on your own head' sort of warning/disclaimer for those wanting to use the service.

I'm unsure if I'm barking up the wrong tree on your request for fleshing out since to me I feel you'd probably want more of a rundown on backend. Other than pointing you to differing projects to have hosted NNTP servers I'm... not sure what else to do there.

HOWEVER.

For public facing groupings.

w10.* feels appropriate here. One could remove the w10. prefix, but for me this feels useful for the sake of organization if people are subscribed to a variety of newsgroup servers be it full on Unix, or other hobbiest projects.

So as example

w10.announcements
w10.hosting
w10.templates
w10.smallnet
w10.foodie
w10.sci
w10.comp
w10.gaming

With more or less groups as deemed appropriate, though I would make the suggestion that religion and politics be hard forbidden topics for everyone's mental health and moderator's welfare.

Main thing I'm wanting with this idea is: 'Well, Reddit is just a web-facing discussion group. A lot of people are unhappy with Reddit, and since w10 seems focused on bringing back the web1.0 era? This also will work on a number of older devices that modern workalikes may not properly service.'

TL;DR: The forums feel like a front end for a mailing list/newsgroup/usenet like underpinning anyway. Why not let usenet/mail clients do the grunt work?

I am unsure on how feasable this is, but it feels interesting if nothing else. Not sure on how much bandwidth and server space would be used, though likely not much so long as binaries are disallowed. The web interface is nice enough especially for those that don't want to deal with setting anything up, but for those wanting that taste of Usenet?

Maybe worth looking into?

Expected to implement automated photogallery script and blog engine for the user websites.