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What are the differences between DBabble and DNews?

April 26, 2017dbabble differences dnews

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What are the differences between DBabble and DNews?

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DNews is actually an NNTP news-server which is able to host all, or a subset of the thousands of news-groups available world-wide, and give users access to the news-groups via news clients. It comes with DNewsWeb, which allows you do add a web interface to these newsgroups. DBabble on the other hand is intended for setting up a few local discussion groups (which can be optionally linked to external news-groups, and optionally available through news-clients), where you have to specifically set up each group you are wanting to be available. Dbabble is probably better for hosting non usenet groups or for ease of installation and use. DBabble also adds many features that DNews does not such as chat rooms and instant messaging, and a downloadable windows client. However, DBabble is recently released software (released during August 2000), so you may find DNews more reliable, although there are no known problems with the release version of DBabble.