Subj : Easy lesson learned = time saved
To   : Daniel
From : MRO
Date : Thu Dec 04 2025 05:49:10

  Re: Easy lesson learned = time saved
  By: Daniel to alt.bbs.synchronet,alt.bbs.mystic on Wed Dec 03 2025 07:53 pm

 > Just sharing an accidental (unintended) discovery about a certain
 > use case for the BBS.

 > First, some history. Occasionally I catch up with Retro Recipes
 > (perifractic) on youtube and was quite attentive to his purchase
 > of commodore and his efforts to reboot the C64 platform. Basically,
 > an FPGA jobber with the original breadbin designed molding, a
 > mechanical keyboard, wifi and some flashy shit.

 > For some time, I considered buying one to support his cause but, life
 > is expensive as it is and I can't justify buying a 40 column device
 > that'll serve to collect dust. Ultimately, I'm not nostalgic
 > for the C64. Never had one as a kid, none of my friends did. The
 > schools I attended had Apple. Bought a C64 mini from gamestop,
 > on sale for $20, some years ago. The games aren't compelling
 > to me. And, I'm accustomed to MS basic on my trs-80 laptop.

 > So why am I here? Well, peri said that they've sold roughly 15000
 > new c64u's. All with wifi. I operated under an assumption that we'd
 > see an uptick of bbs logins from C64's looking for a petscii theme.
 > So, i began planning out a petscii theme for my bbs to support
 > them. I figured, by the time the devices ship, my board would be
 > ready for them.

 > During dinner in October, my wife suggested submitting a poll on a
 > forum. I thought, 'what a brilliant idea.' Lemon64 has huge threads
 > on this endeavor. Hundreds of thousands of views. i thought it would
 > be a perfect place to go.

 > So I put out the poll at the end of October and set it to go a month.
 > With threads surrounding my post with views in the thousands, mine
 > saw a meager number just under 200 views, three responses,
 > and 11 votes. All this in a month on a very active forum.


it's worse than you think. the people who were interested weren't really 
interested.  there's a lot of fake people that pretend to be into retro shit 
but really are idiots who are not interested.
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