I posted a review a few posts back about how I think Unison is probably the best NNTP client in the world, on any platform, but is crippled by its performance (or lack thereof).

I'd like to follow this up with a review of Unison 1.8.

After only using it again for about 10 minutes, I can already see that my one and only (but crippling) complaint has been fixed. The application now feels nippy handling many millions of threads, downloading binaries is super-quick and I've not had a single crash.

I immediately went out and purchased a licence and am now a happy owner.

If you need a client to browse and download stuff from newsgroups, Unison is what you need. The price is fair, (now) the performance is good, and it has the features you're likely to need, and is a shining example of the great UI design that exhibits itself on the Mac platform.

Thank you Panic. +1 happy customer.