Board:   [fsxNet] BBS Software Development/Support
Subject: RE: x/84 revived
From:    NuSkooler(21:1/121)
Date:    Mon Oct 19, 2026 08:14

On Sunday, October 18th Outatime said...
 Ou> With some AI help to handle "chore" work I spent some time reviving the
 Ou> x/84  BBS system written by Jeffrey Quast. If you're not familiar, this
 Ou> is a BBS  written in Python and has been dormant since the Python 2 days.

Hell yeah, this is the project that I stumbled across around '14 or so, and was like holy shit someone is writing a "modern" BBS. Got me to pick up Node.js (didn't know it yet) and write a BBS myself!


On Sunday, October 18th Outatime muttered...
 Ou> The main thing it lacks is message network integrations, which is why my
 Ou> BBS  (bttfbbs.com) doors-out to WWIV to handle message nets.
 Ou> Nevertheless, could be  an opportunity for someone who loves Python and
 Ou> wants to dig in.

IIRC there was some work out there somewhere with someone bridging FTN and x/84 message bases. I'm not sure if that went anywhere.

Do you have a board up yet to play with ?

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