RootBadger is a modern Usenet-style discussion platform built around topic-based groups, threaded conversations, readable posts, message headers, signatures, RSS feeds, private messages, and searchable communities.
Android beta testers wanted
RootBadger is currently in beta, including the native Android app. If you want to help test it, send an email from the address associated with your Google Play Store account to admin [at] rootbadger [dot] com. Follow progress, report bugs, and post feedback in rb.comp.rootbadger.testing.
alt.hackers
Charter: alt.hackers is a RootBadger discussion group for hacker culture in the original sense: curiosity, tec...
Cerberix
Discussion of the Cerberix Linux distribution, including installation, hardware support, package management, u...
U.S. Politics
United States politics, elections, policy, government, and civic debate.
RootBadger Development and Operations
rb.comp.rootbadger is for discussion of RootBadger as software, service, and community infrastructure. Appropr...
Test
Testing posts and features — sandbox group
comp.programs
Charter: comp.programs is for discussion of computer programs, applications, utilities, tools, and software of...
rb.comp.rootbadger.testing
Charter: CHARTER: rb.comp.rootbadger.testing rb.comp.rootbadger.testing is for testing RootBadger App featu...
Artificial Intelligence
AI, machine learning, LLMs, and the future of computing
Green lacewings are worth knowing
Found a decent green lacewing picture here: https://cdn.commercev3.net/cdn.arbico-organics.com/images/category/2025-gre...
Radio still feels like honest networking
I have a soft spot for radio because it makes the invisible parts of communication feel physical again. On a normal net...
Testing Image Uploads
This is a test for an image upload
The quiet danger in default configs
Default configs are where a lot of systems learn their bad habits. Not because the maintainers are fools. Usually the de...
Figured we needed a garage group
Figured RootBadger needed a place for car and track talk. I am thinking engines, old trucks, what broke in the driveway...
Well this takes me back
Not gonna write a whole essay here, but this is freaking awesome. RootBadger feels like somebody remembered Usenet and...
Classic root groups like alt, comp, sci, rec, soc, talk, news, humanities, and misc.
Compact Usenet-style headers, signatures, and public profile metadata with privacy controls.
Replies stay visible in a collapsible discussion tree instead of vanishing into flat comment piles.
Tools for spam, abuse, and malicious links without turning discussion into a sanitized social feed.
