Subj : about firesidebbs
To   : test
From : Nightfox
Date : Wed Mar 05 2025 14:08:09

  Re: about firesidebbs
  By: test to All on Wed Mar 05 2025 08:48 pm

 te> I have to express how impressed I am of the growing utility of the weather
 te> door lonewolf created on his bbs. So impressed with the full functionality
 te> of it. Really remarkable,really.

 te> I must be just a nut or something, but I go on his bbs every day and geek
 te> out.

I should probably check out his BBS more.

 te> For anyone who hasn't checked it out, he has implemented a fantastic sixel
 te> representation of animated weather data including radar and cloud cover
 te> with three zoom  settings.

I do think it's a pretty cool weather door.

 te> this is the appeal, for me, of modern bbs'ing. what can we do to replace
 te> the browser and/or mobile apps? and modern api's are the key here.

I think it's interesting to think about that, because the modern browser & such are what has generally replaced BBSing.

 te> sixel likely rubs alot of people wrong. but i love it.

I really like sixels, and it's hard to imagine them rubbing anyone wrong.  I think one limitation, though, is that sixels are a fixed size, so if someone has a large terminal, then a sixel might appear small to them.  But the BBS could potentially detect the client's terminal size and scale the sixel accordingly.

I think sixels and RIP (Remote Imaging Protocol) could both be used for very similar purposes, but maybe different use cases.  And I don't remember if RIP has built-in scaling, but I suspect it might; I think RIP has a specific resolution (as in image dimensions) in is spec, so it might be the same pixel dimensions scaled to the user's terminal size, which has its pros and cons.

Nightfox
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