I've updated
the INDeX (http://index.nextcommunity.net/) to a new look meant to mimic the appearance of vintage NeXT documentation and packaging.
indexified.png (http://index.nextcommunity.net/)
If it seems primitive—that's the point! It's designed to look good in OmniWeb 3. The only modern web tech is a bit of CSS that I added to make sure modern browsers don't try to do anything fancy.
The newest section is the
NEWSFEED at the top, which is automatically generated from the latest stories of a number of RSS and Atom feeds—a mix of blogs, forum posts, and project updates. Let me know if you have any suggestions for additional feeds to include here; I've tried to steer clear of anything related to gaming or 8-bit machines in this section since they would likely drown out everything else.
The newsfeed crapped out recently—it seems the GAP (GNUstep Apps Project) repo is empty and doesn't want to generate a list of commits. I've removed it from the list and things are working again.
You can get the INDeX newsfeed reprocessed for your favorite reader here: http://index.nextcommunity.net/rss.star Now with NextBSD (https://nextbsd.org/) repos!
The NeXTcommunity Archives (archive.nextcommunity.net) site (http://archive.nextcommunity.net/) now has a very rudimentary search function, powered by chewing gum and Unix utilities, just the way Ken Thompson intended. Needless to say, finding filenames is a lot faster than grepping file contents, but both options are provided. The latter takes around a minute but will probably be a lifesaver to anyone afflicted by a need for a particular document.
As a bonus this accidentally ingested a copy of NeXTanswers that was hosted by TU-Berlin, which means there is now a searchable online copy of NeXTanswers, in advance of the more competent search that I was planning on putting on answers.nextcommunity.net (https://answers.nextcommunity.net/). (You better believe it's been over 20 years since there was a way to search NeXTanswers from a dedicated interface in a web browser!)