Hasn't crashed once since I've done this. So, should you buy it? As I understand it, compatibility is not just based on version numbers, but also on the Ocaml version with which it was compiled. This is a common problem in many software created in the USA, and that could explain why I am able to read in some groups (like rec.music.classical.recordings) only postings from today and from the 18th of January of 2006, and nothing in between. It is a perfect match for RSS in the Internet Tools category. 4. server connection lost Dont know if i'm the only one, anyone else with same problem ???? The app is developed by Panic Inc. I would give you a 5 if you can stop it beach balling me so often! For some reason nothing happens when selecting the "Preferences" and "Edit Servers" menu items. - I also wanted to modify, hide or delete the directory, but I could not see any way to do this. Spent a bit of time trying to resolve but less effort to try alternatives (trying NZBVortex now, seems to be working well but interface is somewhat confusing.). It is absolutely staggering. It just isn't worth you money ! Panic, when you sell people programs for money, give them something good that works. Don't get distracted by all the negative reviews down here. version 2 is very good...I like the UnRAR built-in feature, it save me a lot of time when downloading files. Sorry but the last update of Unison also gives more trouble than relief. For example, the "Transfers" section, which shows current transfers and allows you to rearrange or remove them, is at the bottom of a scrolling sidebar. I hope Panic plan something new! White on black, especially on a MacBook monitor, is not easy to read. It's a completely waste of good money and my advise to everyone is, wait until the program is more stable or use something else !!! Unison — our excellent OS X app for accessing Usenet Newsgroups and the many wonders and mysteries contained within — has reached the end of its road after years of faithful service. No matter what you do, you are working with all the headers in a particular group. Mac is a very stable computer and it can certainly do without crappy programs who make it look like windows !!! Today it Unison just continues to download the whole list, and everything is a mess with 0 byte files. Fortunately, cloning the GitHub repository and building from source was pretty straightforward. Debug RUST_LOG=debug unison References * Fixed problem with SSL connections never timing out and getting stuck in "stalled" Sometimes manual processing of the par set functions, most of the times it does not. After waiting for some updates I'm still very disappointed in this software and it's support. Abandonware. But at least it looks nice. It is absolutely annoying that I can not mark files as read anymore. In this particular case a developer who, because of techinical difficulties, thinks he can and should decide how Usenet should be used by his clients. But sometimes downloads get "stuck" in the queue and never go away. Using 1.8.1 loads everything nicely. What's fair is fair ! It's post processing is horrible though - Always messes up my PARs etc., so I have that turned off and MacPar Deluxe/MacHacha take care of that instead. I've been using Unison to upload and download since V2 with very few problems, and certainly not the sluggish behavior I see in the reviews. I will consider this if I ever again have to pay money for a Panic product. Now the program (2.1.1) sometimes suddenly freezes in the dock or while uploading/downloading or just doing nothing (??) Should be all set, right? I think it's great. Cheers! Today unison hides the PAR files. Beachballs, this is getting totally useless .. It's guaranteed to happen if I let Unison sit there idle for a while. But it also goes much, much further than any other Usenet client on earth, starting with a unique four-view interface that lets you view and work with Usenet group content in four distinct styles: messages, files, images, or music. Not for me, unfortunately. Horrible, but necessary as we have too few serious alternatives. I was so completely surprised by Unisons speed. - don't try to add read/unread option ; do it ! I found this can sometimes cause the program to crash (possibly when dragging in the first group with the folder closed). "Intelligent downloads" (par support) was always somewhat sketchy, never reliable, the implementation of NZB search engines only half-hearted, never thoroughly done, and downloading large amounts of newsgroup headers is as slow in 2012 as it was in 2007. I have been with this from v1 I really like it. • Search 3rd party index sites and dl direct from .nzb link in search results If not careful folders and all the groups inside of them can be accidentally dropped off the edge of the window and instantly removed from the favorites list. I agree with most of the comments posted about the new version 2.0. The only workaround I could find was to use, Unison 2.51 wouldn’t interoperate with the existing Unison 2.48 binary on the Ubuntu system. It's a pity that a developer isn't capable of developing software that at least works instead of giving trouble. Nice looking app, Panic. 1. it isn't a very cheap upgrade, it costs $18 With that in mind, I already had a working setup using Unison 2.48 so I started there. If you have corrections, suggestions for improvement, or feedback on how I can improve this post, please contact me on Twitter. Work has been done on Unison, no doubt, but I think the one-man-behind should only do programming, and that a designer should work with him, for all questions fonctions/interface/decisions. The Unison program is created by Benjamin C. Pierce and is released under GPL license. SPEED Think they would suffer from that, since their version 2 is " crappy" from the beginning of the release ! I Emailed you twice concerning the bug I have. But, I get tired of browsing lists of endless foreign language posts to find what I want, and I miss things. That is normal, the connection is flaky, it should just try again and I don't want to know about it. My Unison 1 bookmarks where not imported. An even more exciting UI challenge is that if you go to the "Window" menu looking for a downloads window (as you did in Unison 1), you'll find the Activity window that looks like it should be managing downloads, but does not enable you to interact in any way with the progress it displays. If you need to actually browse or search through newsgroups (as opposed to simply downloading massive queues of NZB files), there aren't many options on the Mac, and the interface was decent. With OSX 10.8 a real nasty bug is in the program. Lastly take a look again at the extraction portion of the app, and it will be a really classy A1 program. 2. Nice interface, it seems as if the feature set had evolved to a point where it may have been. Besides that I don't like the black background on the new interface when expanding the file list tree. "How come I can't mark files as "read" anymore? Unisons default "max headers" size was very small (and now I know why). (Snow Leopard 10.6.2, iMac i7) It's nearly impossible to use it more than 2 minutes! Just a suggestion. Now that they've formally stopped supporting Unison, don't expect they'll be paying much attention to posts here (and that could be lucky for us, since there are few comments from jerks who were apparently raised by wolves and have no manners). Now I would also like a Prefs setting or some such to switch off this rather annoying Smart Downloading behaviour. The interface is still OK, but it is nowhere near as usable as the guys at Panic seem to think it is. The use case here is to keep a subset of directories in sync between a MacBook Air running macOS “Catalina” 10.15.5 and a Surface Pro 6 running Windows 10. Incredible: Same issue someone posted on Versiontracker. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Sometimes it helps to pause the download and manually resume, sometimes it does not help. I delete all binary file listings from Unison (instead of marking them read as I did in Thoth), this may be why the program performs faster. Only messages can be marked as read - but if you are in the "All" section this is absolutely pointless. I sent them an email regarding the issues mentioned above and have not received a reply from them in well over a week now. Because the developer is friendly and responsive I paid for the upgrade, but I'll hold back on using Unison 2 until at least I can mark files Read/Unread and I can customize font size etc in the file listings window. I recently installed unison on my home machine (OSX 10.9) and on my remote server (Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit). - NZBVortex can be a CPU hog, particularly when unpacking. Unison strangely does not prevent my mac from going to sleep even though download and extraction processes are in place. The developers of this app really need to go back to the drawing board with this one. I waited and waited and waited and waited for an update and I'm not one little bit disappointed. - Visual Design: The updated app icon with its faux metal surface is - in my book, ymmv - just another sign that this app is becoming "over-designed and under-featured" ask the user to manually choose on the action to make. Panic have some nice apps they are a very slick outfit...but they need to stabilise this one up a tad. I really don't think anyone at Panic gives a damn about this program. Setup: Unison 2.51.2 for macOS installed locally, unison-2.51.2 compiled on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS Sync between Mac and Ubuntu works fine for small directories (~ 1000 files). As it is, I can use it for a short amount of time before it crashes, usually at the end of a download. Prepare for a rave review and a full retraction of my extremely critical post of 16 Feb 2011. Version 2.2 is crashing a lot and thus more or less unusable. I asked support if they could include a way to make the type face bigger in all parts of the interface. - Usability: instead of improving the search for groups (e.g., w/addtl. - Freezes, crashes, and even more crashes. Unison 2.48.4 was installed and running on the Ubuntu system, and I installed Unison 2.48.15 on the new MacBook Air. Things like this have happened before and will happen again. When organizing the folders it is not possible to drop a folder between other folders, folders can only be dropped at the bottom, between groups, or into other folders. Same reason as why I won't buy an automatic car. The size of the latest installer available is 9.6 MB. Unison 2 still does not handle any kind of interruption in the connection to the news server gracefully at all. Unison is now faster than Hogwasher and seems to have no problem handling lots of rules and large newsgroups with a bazillion posts. Then refine what you have based on feedback from users. There are now no usenet apps for Macintosh? * If operation queue can't connect to the server and the error is retry-able, we now re-queue operation and try 30 seconds later One important of Unison is that one has to run it manually i.e. There are still apparent bugs that spoil an otherwise great design. Lost all my favourites as stated earlier, every file shows up twice on my Giganews account. The older version (1.1) although not perfect, was about as good as it was going to get on OS X (which still wasn't great but again, about the best it was going to get). 3. ssl errors As to the why of this major issue? It's been a LONG time coming, and things were looking grim, but I am truly impressed! Yeah this is a tad unstable on all my Macs I agree it likes to beach ball me very often. Bit overpriced for a Usenet client, though. Truth? From this page hosting Windows binaries for Unison, I downloaded a Unison 2.48.4 binary for Windows. Clean UI and true to Panic's quality and style. A newsreader without the capacity to mark messages as read is like a toilet that can't flush. I'll not be paying to update this app until there is a proper version which correctly loads all preferences from the 1.8 version. I'm not a beta tester but a paying costumer, I choose to be !!!! It was that slow. However, rest assured that the incredible improvement I'm lauding proves to be some kind of fluke, I'll let you know. No response yet, understandable, you people are very busy I guess. ;-)) I know it's not a big money-maker, but there are those that still like using Usenet. Unison 1.8.1 works fine for me in Snow Leopard (10.6.2), not sure what problems others are having, have never had a problem with it. It offers all the expected newsreader functionality: easy-to-navigate threaded discussions, the ability to ignore annoying posters, multiple signature management, and easy, Mail … At the top of the scrolling sidebar is the Newsgroups section. Stability is a major problem and not being able to mark files read is a huge pain! Post by Stefan Moser ***@alumni.ethz.ch [unison-users] silly question: I'm trying to keep several Unison versions installed on my machine (macOS 10.14.1): my main Unison version 2.51.2, and also one version 2.48.15 which I have renamed "Unison-2.48" in the /Application folder. The app is developed by Panic Inc and its user rating is 4 out of 5. But I mainly use it for text so not a big deal for me. I just bought Unison and I use it only for reading discussions. I have to open the disclorue triangle every time to check what's included and what not. I'm disappointed in Panic--especially given the time it took to get an update. What i look for in a usenet reader is speed (downloading headers, sorting, searching), reliability (downloads download as expecting), and ease of use (intuitive interface). has already been purchased, you can access this purchase via the ‘Downloads’ button below. I don't know about the latest version, because I gave up 6 months ago, and I was one of the original beta testers of version 1.0. Great, powerful, essential! I use NewsDemon as my provider with excellent retention and full speed access. MacPARdeLuxe and SimplyRAR work fine for me. Make it easier to download PAR files. Save money with MacUpdate Shop & keep your Mac software secure and up-to-date with MacUpdate Desktop. So — PLEASE stop posting insults! Use, If you’re running macOS 10.15, be sure to use Unison 2.51. I just wish the developers would sit down and sort the stability out. A return of the available header count next to the group name wouldn't hurt much either. All this takes place on a 3GHz quad-core machine w/8GB of RAM, running off a 10k rpm WD Raptor. Unbelievable! When I first launch Unison everything is fine, and I can download newsgroup files, etc, etc. The tool is known to work on Linux and it might work on other platforms such as macOS and Windows as all software dependencies claim to be portable across these. The interface is very polished albeit somewhat feature deprived. I fully retract my post of 16 Feb 2011. Unison have a nasty habit to not find all articles in a post, same post works in Newsbin. It looks like it may be some kind of issue where the authentication is not being passed back to my provider (Astraweb) - based on my reading it seems as if similar suspend / pause issues have plagued the software for years. Very bad update - brings nothing new really, crashes during downloads, download speed at ½ of previous version. I always use. Here is how Unison rates on each one. All you'll see are NULL folders. I had to use AppZapper to remove everything except the app file itself and then delete ~/Library/Application Support/com.panic.Unison2. - The only way I found to organize groups already marked as favorites into folders was to drag them. Nice software if it's working but if some crusial functions don't work properly it isn't even worth one dollar !!! Most of the bugs seem to come from the DL and extraction engine with large downloads stalling repeatedly and no auto-resume possible. I haven't found it to be buggy. Quite annoying. It's a shame that is really the best thing I can say about this upgrade, the guys at Panic should be embarrassed. The absolutely abhorent performance leaves me still searching for a better reader. After paying for it, I discover that it has a very nasty bug where it freezes up my Mac Pro for approx 30 seconds and then the entire left sidebar becomes a mess of corrupted graphics, and the only way to see my newsgroups listed properly if to relaunch Unison. I know Panic has said 2.2 was EoD, but maybe they could at least release a bug fix to make 2.2 useable. Thanks for updating after two years, however, all my favourite groups have gone...just left with an unnamed list of empty folder icons. (This. It offers all the expected newsreader functionality: easy-to-navigate threaded discussions, the ability to ignore annoying posters, multiple signature management, and easy, Mail-like posting with spell checking and all the trimmings. Are you sure that Unison works OK if the date and time are set in the computer in a format different to the standard USA format (month, Day, Year)? I bumped it up as high as it would go (to get all of my headers) - and tried to reload. Then release a proper Major release. I was beginning to think it was just me having these persistent hangs, so it's nice to discover this forum. One dollar!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Them in well over a week now a toilet that ca n't do better/worse... 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