Post News

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Post News
Post News logo
PostNews-Screenshot.png
URL https://post.news/
Status Offline
Archiving status Saved! (except topic feeds and very recent posts)
Archiving type DPoS
Project source postnews-grab
Project tracker postnews
IRC channel #past-news (on hackint)
Data[how to use] archiveteam_postnews

Post News is a social networking platform launched in 2022 by Waze founder Noam Bardin, with a goal to promote constructive news discussions and serve as a healthier alternative to platforms like Twitter.

They announced on 2024-04-19 that the site would cease operations "in a few weeks" due to the service "not growing fast enough to become a real business or a significant platform.". [1] A DPoS project was started 2024-05-15 to grab all publicly available data and was completed later that day. The project wasn't able to save topic feeds as those were behind a user login. Comments were saved, but the API endpoint to enumerate comments is behind a login wall and cannot go into the Wayback Machine. If you know the ID of the comment, you can use the specific post API endpoint (see below) in the Wayback Machine. The WARCs for comment enumeration will be uploaded to the Internet Archive soon.

Sometime around 2024-05-21, a proper deadline of 2024-05-31 was announced. The website shut down around 2024-06-01 04:01 UTC, though as of 2024-06-01 13:29 UTC, the shutdown page's HTML source still includes the post contents and the "robot-friendly" page (returned when using curl and the like) has not changed and also still returns post data. Sometime in July 2024, the website started returning 503 to all requests.[2]

API

While lists of comments on posts and topic feeds are restricted to those who are logged-in, individual comments may be accessed via the post endpoint if you know the ID of the specific comment.

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