www.codenewsfast.com is the current web address of our searchable archive of Delphi support posts, now with more than 17gb of data. The archive was called developers.href.com in the 1990s. It was purely based on NNTP content for more than 10 years. NNTP was great and almost completely free to use and run but it was not slick and exciting and development talent did not show up to make it robust enough. We tried for years to get by with an open-source nntp solution on CentOS linux but it really did not hold up.
It took quite a while for me to decide that Discourse was popular enough to give it some extra attention.
The Australian Delphi User Group has given us permission to archive their content, so we are working on a custom import from its RSS and JSON URLs. Once that is working, we’ll try to bring in some of the other Delphi discourse forums.
There are still about 5 active NNTP Delphi forums. These days we have a multi-step process which involves using XanaNews for downloading from each of those newsgroups. We import from there into Firebird SQL, thread the conversations and re-index. I always say that I will do it every 3 months, hmm, the last import was more than a year ago. I ran into some trouble with a deadlock and have been trying to fix the logic around it.