DIVEMATERZA  I agree with Yuuko, the app need a bit of a renaissance. The random crashes have never been fixed. GUI is outdated. It starts to look like a "legacy" "obsolete" software. On the other hand amongst very few options out there Unison is still the best out there for me.  
(Version 1.8.1)

YUUKO  I used to love this application, and still want to love it, but...

Panic does not keep us informed.

Also, Unison needs badly to be updated, and it should have been WAY before Snow Leopard. Its code needs huge tuning, especially when working with big download lists. It crashes sometimes, and even if you save the list fine, it often gets corrupted. Also, the database is slow ! Groups can be very crowded, and you can do a better job working with the database, saving us time waiting for the damn thing to be updated, filtered, and all.

And what about exporting database ? Back-up fonction ? And any new feature many people ask for ?

Not talking about the Snow Leopard introduced bugs, other people pointed them out very well: by today's Mac standards, Unison should be labelled as an early beta.

Panic really don't care about its customers, but still want us to support them. Guys, that doesn't work this way. I already gave up Transmit for Flow, where I get real support and where app is really updated. What's keeping me to Unison is that there's no alternative, and I am pretty sure you use this fact in order to keep the app unworked on.

I have lost faith and respect to you. It's up to you to get them back.  
(Version 1.8.1)

ROBM52  Not sure what the problem is for others, I got and subsequently paid for this app a few weeks ago and I works great on my Intel iMac running 10.5 (Can't yet say about 10.6). I had been using MT-NewsWatcher, but that's quite out of date now... seems lost in the abyss. As for feedback from the source, I sent a query to unison@panic.com and got my answer a few days later. I'm recommending this for anyone wanting a simple, clean newsreader that's able to download whatever you like. If there's a better newsreader around, I'd like to know!

Rob  
(Version 1.8.1)

STANBRAT55  Totally agree with everyone who is not happy with the app. There is one more problem that it has in Snow Leopard: does not preview music files anymore. Bad rating only because the developers do not respond to registered customers. If I knew that - would never spend money on this.  
(Version 1.8.1)

MACNERD1984  This is in such dire need of an upgrade. I'm genuinely bummed out that I paid for this app, since the attention paid to it is non-existent. It is completely and utterly unacceptable. Feature requests are ignored, the last UD was February 2009 and now with Snow Leopard further bugs are creeping in. The latest is a weird document icon stuck in the top LH corner of every group window.... In addition, we hear nothing from Panic - They need to either EOL it or update it. Sh1t or get off the pot.

I'm fed up with spending money with devs who have no intention (or capability) of ever really developing a product past it's current state. Panic clearly have little regard for the people who support their company and as such I wouldn't buy another one of their products. Clearly that won't make a difference to them, but...... There's nothing to say that they won't do the same again for Transmit etc.

I just don't get how we now have as little choice as ever (less, in fact) for a Mac News app. There are more devs than ever, more Mac users than ever, the biggest opportunity for someone to do something great and yet we're still stuck with pretty much one app (unsure if Thoth is still around).

Big shame - Unison really has promise, made my news experience WAY more pleasant than Thoth/MT Newswatcher and with some TLC could really shine. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to find out what the app needs to bring it up to date so Panic just need to get on it.

Hang on, do you think....? No, surely not. Perhaps Panic and Unsanity are really the SAME company... I mean, Unison, ShapeShifter...... ;-)  
(Version 1.8.1)

CASTLE  This ever going to get a real update?  
(Version 1.8.1)

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)

DOM21  Too many beachballs with 7.7. Had to go back to 7.5. (iMac OSX3.9, 1.8G CPU, 2G RAM)  
(Version 1.7.7)

AMAVIDA  hehe I note this is essentially a Leopard (10.5) bugfic release, so Leopard can't be too far away now :)

Ok back to unison... I have registered both this & Hogwasher for a long time.

I find myself using hogwasher far more often (especially for reading threads) because it behaves the way you want (although the multi window interface can be a little annoying).

Unison seems designed to give too little choice in how things are done imho... I keep trying out the latest versions & then going back to Hogwasher in frustration... maybe it's just me...

Transmit is great, also registered that long ago.  
(Version 1.7.7)

GLIOMA  I made essentially the same comment under Transmit. Great software, lousy customer support. Email requests for support do not get a response. The developer's website states that emails for support will be answered within a few business days, but it's more like a few business months.  
(Version 1.7.6)

D20BOOKS  Of all the Mac OS X newsreaders out there, this is a fabulous and user friendly reader.

This has a tremendously well thought out USENET Binaries upload feature.

Downloading binaries is not so reliable but this is usually a limitation of the NNTP server you are connecting to.

If it is that big of a deal, iGrabNews is a better binary downloader.

Reading and Posting messages (including Binaries) is a dream.  
(Version 1.7.6)

ETNIER  I moved from Thoth to Unison quite a while ago. Although it has done a great job of making the USENET experience user-friendly, the developers have not yet managed to address longstanding bugs which really get in the way.

Biggest: the program (at least with my ISP server) loses track of what it's supposed to download, reporting a completed download queue when it's actually lost track of many files. IF YOU DON'T REMEMBER to then RELAUNCH Unison so that it can remember the components it lost track of, they stand an excellent chance of being flushed from the server before you figure out what's happened.

Also: problems communicating with (again: my ISP) the server, so that queued items fail to download on launch: the program has to be manually instructed time and again to seek for files it fails to obtain from the server.

Also: you cannot reply to a post unless it's lucky enough to have been sorted into Unison's arbitrary "Messages" category. All this categorization works against the power-user, and should be defeatable.

I haven't gone back to Thoth yet, but little about this app has changed in the last year or so. I'm running out of patience.  
(Version 1.7.5)

SLEGGAT  After using Windows newsreaders for many years and then eventually buying a Mac, I was kinda worried that Macs wouldn't have any decent newsreaders. I don't know where I found Unison but man am I happy I did!?

I love how everything is so simple! The software I used to use had a million different options, menus, buttons, toggles and I thought they were all important and necessary, but it turns out 95% of it was confusing fluff!

I had no hesitation in handing over money to register Unison.

I could probably duplicate this comment and replace the word Unison with the word Transmit. They're both great bits of software by Panic.  
(Version 1.7.5)

MNYSTEDT  Great app. Good, Mac-y interface. If you want to do USENET, this is the app for yo.  
(Version 1.7.2)

CASTLE  Great app, and easily the easiest and best for Usenet. Can be a bit sluggish at time, though, and the latest version seems pretty buggy, especially with the downloads and download queue. Also, keyboard shortcuts such as "Select All" no longer seem to function in the download queue.   
(Version 1.7.2)

QUIIICK  Setting a specific color as a result of a rule via the "other..." menu item in the preferences window does not work. It always slips back to the default pale-blue after closing the color-palette, no matter what color you choose.

Please fix this bug!  
(Version 1.7.2)

QUIIICK  Quote:

"Fixed filehandle leak causing "file not found" error after 200 uploads"

Thanks for fixing this annoying bug!  
(Version 1.7.2)

PURE DIGITAL  If you want Usenet / NNTP this is the application to use. It does not get any better then this  
(Version 1.7.2)

RENé KRCMAR  Great software, unfortunatelye due to a bug, you won't be able to post in languages witch uses letters with accents.

Indeed, all messages are posted in Unicode UTF8, and you cannot change that. So in many Web newsreaders, the messages with accents won't be readable ...  
(Version 1.7.1)

QUIIICK  When uploading multiple files with Unison's newly added upload feature the included numbering-scheme should start with [01 of 128] not [1 of 128] for example.

Also IMHO the options of file-size and inclusion/addition of rar-files for downloads should be placed into the application-preferences window under a new upload-tab and not into the dialog-field of the upload-process itself.

It would also be nice to be able to add a comment-text to uploads not only a subject-line.

All in all Unison is a nice and promising usenet-client but still does need a lot of refinements.  
(Version 1.7.1)

QUIIICK  Finally version 1.7 ads the probably most requested features of all: FILE UPLOAD capabilities!

I going to test this new feature and if it works nicely I will definitely buy Unison now.

I've waited from the start for this to be implemented and with the newly added upload capabilities Unison is now finally worth the requested price of $25.

Thank you, Panic!  
(Version 1.7)

ANONYMOUS  Garbage. Lots of fluf and no substance. Use a free news client instead.  
(Version 1.6.3)

GAV  Unison is a pretty nice program let down by very poor stability. It will typically crash at least once during a session of working with it. Crashes typically happen when loading additional messages in a group, or hiding and showing read messages.

emails and crash logs sent to the developer have resulted in no improvement, and as someone else has said, they can take a very long time to respond to email support.  
(Version 1.6.3)

INTERSTITIAL  I've had little trouble with getting support from the Panic guys. I do read the documentation carefully, and try to be polite. Just because money changes hands isn't reason to believe that you are entitled to boss someone around.

A satisfied customer.  
(Version 1.6.3)

MACFELLER  I have had many email interactions with both the front guy and the main software guy at Unison. They have always been responsive and informative. As evidenced by some comments here "mileage varies." I've had no issues with updates and am now on Tiger with Unison 1.6.2. My gripes are meager filtering, no binaries posting, and no simultaneous opening groups (i.e. highlight all a Favorites' groups and double-click for them all to start opening). But their support? It's been great and is why I paid up even before I was commited to using it full-time.  
(Version 1.6.2)

SILICA  Since updating to OS 10.4.1 and the latest security update, I've had numerous crashes when clicking on newsgroup names. Customer support is my biggest complaint re this software. The developer takes days to weeks to respond to emails with questions or problems. I've had this experience with both Unison and Transmit. So, if you think you will need customer support via email, I would look elsewhere.  
(Version 1.6.2)

ANONYMOUS  On 1.6.1, server messages are displayed on alert panel, not inline message.

Alert, Ok, alert, Ok... I'm tired...  
(Version 1.6.1)

APOC_METAL  Hm.. Great app, love it for downloading music (streaming mp3 preview!) but since upgrading to 1.6 it crashes every once in a while, which isn't a big deal, but is annoying...

This one is worth paying the small fee for!  
(Version 1.6)

ANONYMOUS  Painfully slow using giganews.com

Worked fine using older versions, but upgrading to 1.6 slows it exponentially? what is the problem?  
(Version 1.6)

QUIIICK  Unison is a very promising usenet client. That said, it's maybe a little bit too Mac-like: Doesn't appeal to the pro-user a lot IMHO.

But what definitely IS missing badly (and this really hurts/sucks), is the ability to batch-upload larger collections of files in one swoop.

The ONLY way to do this now on the Mac, is to use the cumbersome duo of Osiris + MT-NewsWatcher.

Please, please ad an upload helper to Unison (and I'll buy it right away.  
(Version 1.6)

MATT DAIR  Have been using this program since Ver. 1 and Love it, even with the so called bugs. It may not be perfect but it is the best NNTP GUI I have found.  
(Version 1.6)

GEORGE D  i love transmit, have used it for years, bought licenses, etc. So when i saw Unison, i thought this will be great. I bought a license and started to use it.

There are many problems.

The two-window interface is inconvenient. having to select desired groups in one window and then read them in another is wrong. this should be available in one window.

Message viewing is problematic. If i read a message in one group and then tried to read another in another group i would many times i would see the message from the other group. There was no way to refresh around this and get the one from the group i was viewing. There must be some internal id being used and the two messages had the same one. So effectively i permanently lost the ability to view certain messages.

Message download is "flaky". It would not download all the most recent messages. This would persist for days. At this point the app became unusuable to me.

Also, every time i tried to download it would fail with a message about not being able to connect. the second time i tried it always connected, or at least did not throw the error.

I tried out Thunderbird and it has none of these bugs and functions perfectly, with the same news server (gmane).

Thunderbird also has a much more convenient and predictable interface. i know how many new messages there are with Thunderbird whereas with Unison i could never be sure.

So, in short, don't buy Unison. (But panic's other product, Transmit, rocks!)  
(Version 1.5.2)

H.J. MO  Two observations after testing Unison 1.5.2 for about half an hour.

1. Lack the article search capability without downloading all the headers of Thoth.

2. I couldn't successfully download a single 50 MB file using NZB files. Unison claimed missing part although the same files were successfully downloaded in Thoth. It could be the NZB files, but I doubt it because those NZB files were from the very active groups. Hence, if they had problem, someone would have said so.

So, back to Thoth for heavy downloading.  
(Version 1.5.2)

SI ON PSY  This is an all right reader for smaller groups (e.g. under 1000000 posts)... As soon as the post-count gets much larger than that, the app gets horribly slow... Working with a 8000000 post group is worse than you can imagine. Uses an impressive amount of system resources, even on a Dual 2.5 GHz G5 with 2 GB RAM... Please optimize this app... If not for the slow speed, I'd love it.

Sorry dudes; not paying for this app - Yet!  
(Version 1.5.2)

MARK.ANDERSON  Unison is a solid product that does exactly what it says it does, and does it with an clean and beautiful user experience.

It's totally ignorant to constantly compare products in a similar category and flame "XYZ newsreader is better!"... that's your opinion, not a review.

If something in Unison doesn't work as advertised, or is missing some glaring feature that a newsreader MUST have, then list that, but don't just flame the review.  
(Version 1.5.2)

ROBIN C.  I can't believe the whiny complaints... you're a bunch of losers. This application is solid and works as advertised. Download and try it, if you haven't. You won't belive how simple it is to garner files from Usenet.  
(Version 1.5.2)

THEODORE LEE  While I agree Unison has languished lately (due to the tremendous work the team has done on T3), the app is solid, stable, and easier to use than any other Usenet app. Give the developers a freakin' break! They make some of the best software available on the Mac, or any other platform for that matter. Unison is a great app. If you use Usenet frequently, it is well worth the $24.95.  
(Version 1.5.2)

CABEL SASSER  Hi Guys,

We're honestly working hard on a update to Unison -- it'll fix a number of issues, add some new features, and really improve speed.

Now that Transmit 3 is done, we can switch over to finishing Unison 1.6. (We're not quite big enough to work on many things at once. :))

Thanks for your comments, and please hang on a little bit more for the next Unison!

Best,

Cabel / Panic  
(Version 1.5.2)

ANONYMOUS  Unison is simply horrible.

No multiple group lists, no way to keep servers arrainged, no binary uploads(!!!), a frothy, over done UI that attempts to hide its short comings.

This thing may be OK for some still wet behind the ears newbie who just left AOL but if you need a real, full featured news client look elsewhere.

Thank God I still have my old version of Thoth to use. Looks like I will be using Thoth for years if this is the best Panic can manage.

Its hard to believe the same company that produces the excellent Transmit FTP client is behind this pathetic loser.  
(Version 1.5.2)

ZEITKIND  Well.. for a free software - nice. But they want money? This software has a lot of bugs and logical errors, but at least it didn't crash. Also missing a lot of features and a way to configure connections more decently. Nice try, but still a long way to go.  
(Version 1.5.2)

ANONYMOUS  don't waste your money if you EVER expect to hear anything other from the developer other than a "we're working on it for the next release" reponse to any bug or functional query ...

typical shareware developer ... take the money, then do nothing.  
(Version 1.5.2)

ANONYMOUS  didn't this used to be FREE once??

it's still the best, even though it often crashes me...

but didn't it used to be FREE??  
(Version 1.5.2)

BEN BOROFKA  Unison is quickly becoming the OmniWeb of newsreaders. Pretty interface with lots of features, but in the end, way too expensive and slow. If only Apple had a free alternative. I really wish I didn't delete 1.0.2, anyone know where I can get it?

Downloading in 1.5.1 brings the app to a standstill. 1.0.2 was a little better at this. When I click the X in a search box, I get returned to the top of the list instead of where I was last, very annoying. 1.0.2 did it right. I can't PGUP/PGDN message lists. 1.0.2 did. Why can't I "Mark All Read" for Messages AND Files AND Images AND Music? Oh, and I could also use 1.0.2 for more than 10 minutes.  
(Version 1.5.1)

ANONYMOUS  First rule of the fight club is you don't talk about the fight club.

No good can come of from this.  
(Version 1.5.1)

DAMNDJ  This is the version that should have been 1.0.

1.5 fixes everything that was wrong with 1.02 and makes an excellent news reader and even MORE excellent news reader.

Gone is the long wait you have to experience when opening up a previously read news group.

This version feels much smoother and doesn't bring my system to its knees.

Great job once again, Panic! This is the best news reader anywhere. Hands down.  
(Version 1.5)

ANONYMOUS  I am impressed. I tried a couple other programs for usenet, but always ended up back with unsatisfying Entourage (I know I know...). But this looks like I can relegate yet another M$ product to the trash! Whoohooo!

I think the interface is very well thought out, and it is quick. The organization of the files, previews etc. are all really cool. So far (1 hour only...) I am loving it!

Thanks for the attention to detail guys!  
(Version 1.5)

CHRIS  v1.5 seems to address all the issues (including excessive memory use) that I had with the previous release.

Excellent work!  
(Version 1.5)

ANONYMOUS  nothin' but smoke-n-mirrors from the developer ....

"there will be a new version soon!"

yeah, right. typical.  
(Version 1.0.2a)

GARBAGE  --

Hmmm... this thing is a ram hog.

I have 1Gb ram & it is regularly using over 700Mb !!  
(Version 1.0.2a)

GARBAGE  I switched from Hogwasher 4 to Unison becuase it is much snappier & straight forward.

Looks & feels more 'native' than HW also.  
(Version 1.0.2a)

ALEX  No update since February? Has this thing been abandoned? Hope not; it's pretty good.  
(Version 1.0.2a)

ANONYMOUS  looks like they spent too much time on the pretty gui and not on stability and real-world usage. crashes, lock-ups, constant errors upon downloading. and people pay for this type of blatant shit. at least thoth got the job done, with none of this 'oh-so-pretty' bs.  
(Version 1.0.2a)

MATREYA  I was hoping for a replacement for Thoth, which is no more, even though it's a wicked news-reader and great at downloading binaries. Unfortunately, Unison is far from being adequate as a replacement, and hasn't been updated in 4 months, despite serious bugs  
(Version 1.0.2a)

ANONYMOUS  I paid for this product within an hour of trying it. If you are just looking for something that will stably and correctly download DVDs, this is the product. It absolutely blows MTNewsWatcher away. NewsWatcher constantly stops dead in its tracks in the middle of downloads, and the files it does bring down fail crc checks about 50% of the time. Unison on the other hand has yet to fail to bring a file down and the error rate is negligible -probably close to the norm -so you won't need all those par files or have to go begging for reposts. It is worth every measly penny of the price. The interface is nice too.  
(Version 1.0.2a)

ANONYMOUS  Damn. This thing kicks ass. Transforms newsgroups into a completely new animal. Needs file resume though.   
(Version 1.0.2a)

ALEX  This...thing...rocks.

Fast, easy to use, looks good and, holy sh!t, the files you can find on Usenet. I had no idea.  
(Version 1.0.2a)

ANONYMOUS  This app is advancing very quickly. There have been tremendous changes between 1.0 an 1.0.2 in stability, usenet standards and speed. Still lacks some must-have-features, like marking messages and still has some annoying bugs (no blank after signature). But the UI is great and the support vom Panic is very good.  
(Version 1.0.2)

A MARTIN  Unison...Unison...

Panic; What about Audion?

Give me some updates for Audion! :-)  
(Version 1.0.2)

ANONYMOUS  Great program for what it is designed for-- Leeching binaries from usenet. It's still version one, se it has some bugs and features to work out, but it works well now.  
(Version 1.0.1)

ANONYMOUS  Once it'll stick to the Usenet standard i'll be glad to use it, but in the meantime, make it GNKSA compliant...  
(Version 1.0.1)

ANONYMOUS  Pretty nice UI. It needs more robust filter and a killfile for me to be able to use it.

I use Thoth now, but I used to use Xnews on Windows and it had very, very comprehensive regex filtering and plonking. There's so much spam on usenet, I really need a good set of tools filter out what I don't want.

Otherwise, it'a pretty good start.  
(Version 1.0.1)

M2  Been using this since release 1.0. But, it appears to be still in Public Beta stages, in my opinion. It already has the potential for a great new Usenet application, but, I think a lot of the features Panic wishes to include, have been left for future versions. Until those features have been added, i.e. being able to Post files, I can not give this application a fair rating as a final release.  
(Version 1.0.1)

BILLY EDWARDS  The user interface is familiar and basic setup is a snap. Having used Thoth for a long time I find there are very few customizeable options, hopefully Panick will work on this for future versions. Also, I have found that Unison requires a high amount of system resources in comparison to Thoth. I generally have 8 to 10 apps going at once, not a good idea with Unison. I think this app has great potential, but I think the asking price is too high, probably double what I think it is worth in it's current form. I use OSX 10.3.2 on a G4 with 512Mb RAM  
(Version 1.0)

SCHMELDING  I love the interface -- the simplicity and features. However, after a few uses it dramtically slows down my system (17" G4 Powabook) with "migs and megs" of memory. It seems to have some memory leaks or something because it almost brings my system to a halt.  
(Version 1.0)

ANONYMOUS  Don't let the simple interface fool you, this is a awesome app. However, that being said, some features don't seem to work, and some features could be added.

On the not working part is "Mark Read" and "Mark All Read" no matter what I do, both stay grayed out in the menu.

Also a way to filter not only spam postings buy certain posters would be nice. In each news group there are certain posters that consistantly post non commerical topics. I would like to be able to filter them and possibly assign a color "label" and group them.

This is a quality app like everything Panic does, however it seems to be a work in progress. Thoth is still my main man but this does have awesome potential.

I can't wait to see where this is by V 1.5.  
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ANONYMOUS  The newsgroup reader for the rest of us. One slick piece of code. It's a sad commentary how cruddy the alternatives have been, this far into OS X's reign.  
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GREG  Unison is absolutely awesome. The first GREAT app of its kind for OSX. No more archaic interfaces. I have been playing with it in beta for over three months and bought it the second it was released!!! This puts all the other programs of its type (including Thoth) th shame.  
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JASON CRAMER  Not as sophisticated as Thoth but not as complicated either! Terrific looking interface! Very fast search feature to find newsgroups in a snap.  
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SIMON  Simply the best newsreader around !

Thx Panic !  
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DAMNDJ  Union is simply the best news reader for any platform, ever. Its features for browsing message groups, file groups, and MP3 groups make the admission price worth it.

The interface is very easy to use and is way ahead of any other news reader on the market.

If you have been disappointed with the quality of news readers for the Mac, like me, then you can celebrate the arrival of Unison.   
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ANONYMOUS  I must admit, i was spent some time wondering why Panic would take the time to make a news reader. The usenet format is almost dead, after all. But then i started using it and found it absolutely wonderful (like everything else Panic does). It took a little getting used to, but the effort was well worth it! Downloading binaries is an absolute dream (despite all the goofy formats that people post with). Obviously, i am a big fan. They already have my money.  
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ANONYMOUS  This is far ahead of anything else.

A good polished Cocoa newsreader has been overdue.  
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ZENO  It simply kicks ass. Best mac newsreader EVER!! Thaaaaaaaaaanks Panic!  
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ANONYMOUS  Wow a Panic usenet client.

Well i don't think much people will buy this as there is a couple of free usenet clients that does things better (especially Un*x clients).

However, nice try Panic  
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MICHAEL JACK  A couple of comments after using Unison for 10 mins:

1) It doesn't allow special characters (the Danish ÆØÅ etc.) in the Subject line when posting. I do see subjects from other posters in group view with these characters, and I can use the characters in the actual message, so it's not like Unison can't handle the characters.

2) When adding/editing a signature, it doesn't respect a new line after the initial "-- " in _some_ newsgroups. Signature looks like "-- Kind Regards", i.e. on one line.

3) It doesn't strip other users signatures when replying, even if the other poster used a proper sig delimiter.

4) There doesn't seem to be any way to automatically download new messages

Regards,

Michael  
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