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New VyprVPN Servers in France

Golden Frog added a French VPN server for VyprVPN customers today. The French server is available immediately for Giganews members who use VyprVPN for all VPN protocols, including PPTP, L2TP/IPsec and OpenVPN. For more details, please read Golden Frog’s blog post below about their French server launch:

“Today, we’re excited to announce VyprVPN server locations in France! The French VPN servers are ready for connections for every VPN protocol, including PPTP, L2TP/IPsec and OpenVPN.

We believe in an open Internet and will continue to deliver Golden Frog VyprVPN customers more server locations. Golden Frog VyprVPN customers can now access the Internet from anywhere in the world from our French VPN server.

The following VyprVPN server locations are now available:

  • France – NEW!
  • United States – East Coast
  • United States – West Coast
  • United Kingdom
  • Netherlands
  • Hong Kong”

To start using the VyprVPN France server, existing Giganews customers only need to update their VPN hostname to:

fr1.vpn.giganews.com

If you need setup information, please visit our VyprVPN setup page, or contact Giganews support.

If you don’t have access to VyprVPN, upgrade to Diamond or add VyprVPN to your account!

Win a Giganews T-Shirt

We have enjoyed interacting with our Giganews members on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Over the next few weeks we will randomly give away free Giganews t-shirts to members who “Like” us on Facebook, “Follow” us on Twitter or subscribe to the Giganews YouTube channel.

Don’t worry, if you already are connected with us on Facebook, Twitter or Youtube you are automatically entered for a chance to win a free Giganews t-shirt!

If you have not connected with Giganews, here are some reasons why you should:

  • Exclusive news and early access
  • Interact with us directly
  • Meet other people who also love Giganews
  • Win a free Giganews t-shirt!!!

Earn a chance to win a free Giganews t-shirt by connecting with us:

Like us on Facebook
Follow us on Twitter
Subscribe to the Giganews YouTube Channel

Giganews Reaches Three Years of High Quality Binary Retention

Giganews continually strives to provide the world’s best Usenet and we recently became the first Usenet provider to offer 3 years of retention! Our retention grows daily and we don’t intend to stop growing retention. We also continue to provide 2971 days of text rentention and growing daily.

Not only is Giganews the world leader in retention, but we also work hard to provide high quality retention. We host every article on our own servers, and we continue to improve our self-written server code to improve speed and scalability. The Giganews team ensures we store multiple copies of every article on redundant worldwide servers. If one server detects a missing article, it automatically pulls it from another. What this means for our Giganews members is unlimited speed and zero incompletes.

As retention and Usenet traffic keep increasing, we are going to ensure we provide the longest, fastest, and highest quality retention for our Giganews members.

Dump Truck – Register for Early Access to Dump Truck Online Storage for Giganews Members!

We recently announced our plans to bring an online, secure, personal storage service to Giganews members. Today, we are opening up registration for early access to Dump Truck online storage by Golden Frog. There are a limited number of spots available to try Dump Truck, so please register today.

What is Dump Truck?

Dump Truck is a personal online storage service created by Golden Frog and will be available for Giganews customers in the coming months. Dump Truck allows you to move your bits and bytes massively and freely while ensuring your files are secure.

Dump Truck early features include:

  • Intuitive web interface with drag and drop upload
  • Simple and secure file structure
  • 256-bit SSL encryption for uploads and downloads
  • Files are encrypted on-disk with 256-bit AES encryption
  • Access to your files anywhere in the world

Visit the Dump Truck registration page for the opportunity to be the first to try the service! There are a limited number of spots, so signup today!

Don’t forget to Subscribe to our blog and follow us on Facebook and Twitter to receive the latest updates about early access to Dump Truck.

Mimo User Interface Improvements – Beta v0.2.3 for Diamond Members

Golden Frog has released Mimo Beta v0.2.3 for Diamond Members. Please read the Golden Frog blog post about Mimo Beta v0.2.3 improvements and changes below:

We are pleased once again to announce the latest beta release of the Mimo Usenet browser. Download the free update now. This release continues the “look and feel” user interface updates along with select bug fixes and new feature improvements.

The new Mimo User Interface becomes more visible with this release. In particular, version 0.2.3 introduces the Action Bar, a more consistent place to access common commands. The Action Bar adapts to the content on the current tab in Mimo, variously presenting controls to open newsgroups in new tabs, download selected articles, Reply to or Forward an existing post, manage downloading message headers in newsgroups, and control your download queue.

We also updated the Search and Filter bars, refined the styles and colors, and included a more consistent appearance for tabs and other interactive elements.

Mimo is starting to feel like a new application, but we are far from finished with the user interface overhaul. The Golden Frog development team is continuing to implement more of planned user interface improvements to make Mimo even easier to use. In upcoming releases, look for updates to how Mimo presents images and thumbnails, additional filtering, and more details on active downloads.

Complete details are available in our Change Log. Download the free update now.

Golden Frog Dev Team

Golden Frog releases Mimo Beta v0.2.2 for Diamond Members

Golden Frog has released Mimo Beta v0.2.2 for Diamond Members. Please read the Golden Frog blog post about Mimo Beta v0.2.2 improvements and changes below:

What’s New in v0.2.2
We are pleased to announce the next beta release of the Mimo Usenet Browser. Download the free update now. The primary changes in this release focused on two key areas:

  1. Bug fixes and performance improvements: This new release specifically targeted some the performance of the newly overhauled internal engine of the last couple releases. You can now download large amounts of newsgroup information without running Mimo out of memory.
  2. First glimpse of the new User Interface (UI): Our new sidebar for downloads and group bookmarks is debuting in this release of Mimo. We’re excited to start coding the newly designed UI.

Full details are available in our Change Log.

Mimo’s New UI
Last year we asked our UI designers to focus on making Mimo even easier to use. And now that we have Mimo’s internal engine optimized, a team of our developers are switching their focus to the UI. But don’t worry, our core team will still be working on implementing new features, bug fixes, and performance enhancements.

Due to our iterative development process, we are able to release updates more frequently. We do this so our users can take advantage of our latest development efforts and provide us with faster feedback. The UI work will follow this iterative method as we release new bits of the new UI as we finish them.

It’s important to note this frequent release schedule will often cause parts of the UI to be in a “functional” state, but not necessarily a “final” state. Mimo is still beta, and we are walking around here with hard hats on.

Thanks for joining us on our journey with Mimo!

Download the free update now.

Golden Frog Dev Team

New VyprVPN UK Server Now Available!

Golden Frog added a UK server for VyprVPN customers today. The UK server is available immediately for Giganews members who use VyprVPN for all VPN protocols, including PPTP, L2TP/IPsec and OpenVPN. For more details, please read Golden Frog’s blog post below about their UK server launch:

“Here at Golden Frog, we work hard to respond to customer feedback and deliver superior privacy and security solutions in ways that fit with our customers’ changing needs. Since we first launched VyprVPN, the most requested feature has been a UK VPN server location. You asked; we listened. Today, we are proud to announce our new UK VyprVPN server!

You can now access the Internet from anywhere in the world and appear as if you are browsing from the UK. This is perfect for British travelers who need to access the Internet in their native language while traveling.

Our new UK VyprVPN server adds to our existing server options on the East and West Coasts of the USA, Amsterdam and Hong Kong. The UK server is ready for connections from any of our available robust VPN protocols, including PPTP, L2TP/IPsec and OpenVPN.”

To start using the VyprVPN UK server, existing Giganews customers only need to update their VPN hostname to:

uk1.vpn.giganews.com

If you need setup information, please visit our VyprVPN setup page, or contact Giganews support.

If you don’t have access to VyprVPN, upgrade to Diamond or add VyprVPN to your account!

Please Read Our Members’ Testimonials

We’ve told you why we think we’re the best Usenet provider in the world. We work 24/7/365 to maintain redundant, worldwide Usenet clusters. We’ve written custom software from the ground up to ensure you always have the fastest possible Usenet connection. We’ve made the investments to build the largest and highest quality Usenet retention on the planet with 100% completion and full speed across every day of retention regardless of the age of the article.

We obviously think we do a pretty good job; but you shouldn’t take our word for it. We recently concluded our 1000 Days of Retention Prize Giveaway in which we asked our members to tell us what they like about our service. We received over 4,400 Salutes. We’ve read every salute, categorized them, and put the best ones up on our site.

So, don’t take our word for it:

See what our members say about the Giganews service!