This sounds like a great UI for reddit and I'm surely going to try it out! I'm not very familiar with NNTP though, so I have a couple of questions.

1. Is mapping subreddits to the global namespaces a good idea? If I were to read NNTP news from multiple sources, wouldn't it be better to have a reddit.* hierarchy alongside the alt.* etc hierarchies? (I assume there's a way to use multiple NNTP servers at once; maybe by hosting my own NNTP server that pulls from multiple servers.)

2. Are slrn and tin the state of the art in TUI clients? Surely someone has a recent promising hobby client?