On Thu, 5 Apr 2018, Jeff Findley wrote:

But the thing is, web pages from my point of view are far less
easy to use than a news group and there is no reason why one
cannot have web addresses on a news post, but basic details are
far easier to navigate on here than on a web site with like this
or more heres all over the bleedin place apparantly randomly
distributed with adverts, pop ups and silly animations.

Agreed, but Usenet News just isn't as popular as it used to be.
The number of active posters in the sci.space groups can be counted
on one person's fingers. :-(

With all that Java Script abuse, the web is becoming unusable.
Add in all that commercial primacy, surveillance and censorship,
it's becoming useless.

Whenever a popup balloon interrupts my reading, I disconnect from the
web site. If every body did that, would the web monsters learn?