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Code News Fast is a full-text search engine and permanent archive for Delphi and C++Builder public newsgroups, operated by HREF Tools Corp. It contains 7,412,880 posts from 2,057 newsgroups across 57 servers, covering the period from 1997 to 2024. After its final crawl in 2025, it was frozen as a read-only historical snapshot. Its role is not to be a general-purpose developer platform, but rather a knowledge base for the Delphi/C++Builder community.
Feature-wise, it supports full-text search, phrase search, author search, date-range filtering, limiting searches to Delphi groups, and switching between article view and thread view. Compared with ordinary web crawling, it indexes directly from NNTP servers and preserves the message body, headers, message-ID, author, date, and thread metadata, making it better suited for reconstructing the full context of technical discussions.
Its technology stack is very much rooted in the Delphi ecosystem: the system itself is written in Delphi XE/Object Pascal, the search core uses the Rubicon full-text search component, and articles and metadata are stored in Firebird SQL. The production environment runs on Windows Server, IIS, and ISAPI. The text mentions an internal search engine API, but there is no public API/SDK information, nor does it state that the service can be self-hosted or has been released as open source. Rubicon is described as a commercial component, while Firebird is an open-source database.
The archive clearly has no paid subscription model and is freely accessible. In terms of ecosystem coverage, it includes Embarcadero official newsgroups as well as servers from independent component vendors and community organizations. It is especially useful for looking up historical issues related to VCL, databases, the IDE, component usage, C++Builder, and similar topics.
Its strengths are the large volume of material, long time span, complete metadata, fast search response, and free access. Its limitations are that the scope is extremely narrow and only relevant to Delphi/C++Builder; the archive is frozen and no longer updated; and there are no visible modern developer-platform features such as APIs, account-based collaboration, data export, or self-hosting.
It is best suited to engineers maintaining legacy Delphi/C++Builder projects, developers looking for old replies from Borland/Embarcadero engineers, component users, and anyone researching the history of the Delphi community.
The crawled text does not provide information about access from mainland China, network acceleration, or payment-related details. Since the service is free, payment methods are not relevant. If access is unstable, alternatives such as Embarcadero official documentation, Stack Overflow, Delphi Praxis, and GitHub Discussions may be worth considering.
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