CUNEYT  Does anyone know if Unison supports IPV6 newsgroups?  
(Version 1.8.1)

DOUG S.  Honestly? This app is OK. It gets the job done (usually). There are definitely features I would like to see, integrated PAR support for instance, but it does as advertised, again, usually.

When you start adding larger NZB files and larger numbers of files to download it starts to act up. Fast. For a start it gets extremely laggy and at times it will fail to respond for a few minutes at a time. Then there are the times when it says it's downloaded all the files only I find it only did about half of them. This is extremely annoying when you queue up a few downloads over the night and expect them to be all complete the next morning.

Out of the other newsreaders for Mac I've come across this one does rather well but it still has a ways to go.

Which is sad for me because I've used and love many of Panic's other products. I think Coda is the single greatest code app for any platform and use it on a daily basis.  
(Version 1.8.1)

FHALS  Coming from all this overall message bloated newsreaders, this one is a crystal.

If your not interested in zillions of headers and don't like to hand pick binaries between them, Unison is your friend.

This one stops waisting your time.  
(Version 1.8.1)

CASTLE  Unison is still in dire need of a major update. Aside from the many needed bug fixes I'd love to see video previews and far more control over the download queue - preferably the ability to queue and schedule NZBs separately!  
(Version 1.8)

VERYCARLA  Unison is having some major, major issues here. I was using 1.7.9 under Leopard, and it seemed to work okay, but then I upgraded to 1.8 and everything went pear-shaped. I'm losing the connection to the server over and over. Unison locks up constantly, sometimes so badly I have to forcibly power off my MacBook.

And because of other issues I was having with Leopard, I reverted to 10.4.11 and Unison 1.7.9, and if anything the problems have gotten WORSE.

It takes forever to make the initial connection to the news server to get article counts, or to open a newsgroup. Downloads fail inexplicably. If I see another "Read failed" error I'm going to scream.

And most annoying? If a newsgroup has several million articles, at some point (even if the article headers aren't all loaded) Unison will open the group, load the new articles and then flash between "Threading" and showing the articles. Infinitely. I've waited as much as ten minutes for it to stop, but it never does. And I have to force-quit Unison to get out of the app.

I've deleted the newsgroups, the preferences and even the app itself. I've flushed the caches, I think I may even have sacrificed a goat to Cthulhu at some point. Some of this helped, but before long it was messing up again.

This is getting ridiculous! I really like Unison, but until something is done about these major problems, I'm going back to MT NewsWatcher. It may not be pretty, but at least it WORKS.  
(Version 1.8)

MAURITZ NORDLUND  I have used usenet since 1994.

Have been a heavy downloader. When I switched to mac, my biggest problem was that it was no easy/good newsreader for mac. I had to have a PC just for that work and used Agent and later Newsbin.

But then Unison came. I have been using it since early 1.04 stage. The first versions did not work great for me, but after that: no problem.

This is a no-frills, easy and working usenet reader and downloader. It does not have all the bells and wistles like Newsbin on PC has, but I would not trade this program for that.

The program is so simple. Just type your server. Drop the .nzb file: and its done.

Quick and stable. Have downloaded over 16 terra the last 12 month with this program.

The infrastructure on Mac is far superior than PC when it comes to news, par, unrar and split and concat.

Get this program. And get newzbin accont and giganews. Unlimited downloads. Everyting that is released to the world is avaible there. Fast..

Panic support rules. When I had an issue, they helped me fast. They also have had free upgrades since 2003. Real value for money.  
(Version 1.8)

TWILCOX  I've been using Unison since it was released. It's always been prone to crashing when I double click images, but with 1.8 on Leopard it crashes so much that I'm giving up on it.

It's too bad Unison doesn't get the same attention as Transmit and Coda (both of which I also own and use).  
(Version 1.8)

DJINIBABY  After a fresh install in 10.5, unison needs 1 minute to connect to the newsserver.

The download speed is only 50%.

I have no firewall and at my router the ports for my newsserver are open.

Any hints?  
(Version 1.8)

D. MATTHEW DAIR  I have been using Unison for several years and love it. The only new feature I would really like to see is video previewing... Keep up the great work guys  
(Version 1.8)

CASTLE  This is in desperate need of a full update. The program is still great, and I keep trying it to see if it does the things I want to convince me to part with my cash, but it's been a long time since it was released. It was one of the most beautiful and simple apps on the Mac when it came out, but now many apps have passed it in both respects. I'd love to see a more persistent download queue (if I put something in the queue it means I want it - I shouldn't have to manually requeue things if there's an error), previewing of movies within Unison, more thread sorting options, and generally a better awareness of how usenet really works these days. This app is slipping behind the times. It's a shame, because it's still a brilliant app!  
(Version 1.7.9)