Native NNTP has been rejected even when there was a patch supplied, because the people who spend most time working on Dreamwidth aren't willing to learn, secure, and maintain another service, even if it happens just to be a gateway to an existing one.
The best I can hope for is to spec YAAPI such that implementing an NNTP gateway using it is pretty easy. Such a gateway would be most easily (but least usefully) done as a single-user affair, in the style of sn or leafnode, rather than a full multi-user NNTP server รก la INN or papercut, simply because the latter would need a way to associate gateway accounts with DW OAuth tokens.
And yes, I've thought about it. I mean, I came at this because places like the wiki still suggest that NNTP is a maybe-eventually DW feature, and the only place it was documented as a not-going-to-happen was on Bugzilla, which has of course gone.
In any case, building such a dreamwidth-to-news gateway would require a "give me all posts and comments in journal x since time t" call, and I'm certain that there are other reasons to have it in YAAPI as well. For non-NNTP purposes, there should probably be two other calls for just entries and for comments on an entry.
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The best I can hope for is to spec YAAPI such that implementing an NNTP gateway using it is pretty easy. Such a gateway would be most easily (but least usefully) done as a single-user affair, in the style of sn or leafnode, rather than a full multi-user NNTP server รก la INN or papercut, simply because the latter would need a way to associate gateway accounts with DW OAuth tokens.
And yes, I've thought about it. I mean, I came at this because places like the wiki still suggest that NNTP is a maybe-eventually DW feature, and the only place it was documented as a not-going-to-happen was on Bugzilla, which has of course gone.
In any case, building such a dreamwidth-to-news gateway would require a "give me all posts and comments in journal x since time t" call, and I'm certain that there are other reasons to have it in YAAPI as well. For non-NNTP purposes, there should probably be two other calls for just entries and for comments on an entry.