Board:   [fsxNet] Mystic BBS discussion/support
Subject: Re: Redoing Mystic
From:    Gamgee(21:2/138)
Date:    Thu Aug 20, 2026 19:19

-=> Accession wrote to Gamgee <=-

 > I think I've read that he did that once, and then got pissed off or
 > something when it was forked, and closed it back down again.
 > Something like that anyway.

 Ac> Not that it was just forked, as that is the whole point of open source.
 Ac> I think a few people were trying to repackage it and claim it as their
 Ac> own work, or something. Also, after forking it, reporting bugs that
 Ac> weren't in the master branch. Probably more, but it's been some time..
 Ac> my recollection of it is fuzzy these days.

Okay, yes, that's probably the correct thing(s) that happened.  I guess
that would indeed be pretty irritating.

 > I'm honestly surprised people still want to run it.  Known bugs that don't
 > get fixed, and ZERO new features added.  <YAWN>

 Ac> Cue 99% of the BBS software out there, my guy. Not all people want to
 Ac> run Synchronet, either. Whether buggy or not, I think a BBS scene of
 Ac> all Synchronet boards would be pretty boring. I don't mind calling a
 Ac> CNET/Amiga board once in awhile, or if someone mentions they've setup a
 Ac> customized PCBoard, or OBV/2, or whatever.. I'll more than likely check
 Ac> that out than <insert random stock Synchronet BBS here>. ;)

Yes, all good points.  I didn't mean to sound like I think only SBBS
should be run.  Not at all.  Definitely agree that stock <anything> is
not appealing.

 Ac> And while yes, I run Synchronet because of the reasons you mention
 Ac> above, I'm not sure there's much if anything left stock, visually.
 Ac> However, I do enjoy seeing a variety of other softwares still running.

So do I, for sure.  I think what I was thinking, that didn't come out
sounding right, was...  There aren't too many *MODERN* BBS softwares out
there, that support telnet/SSH/etc.. easily, so if one wanted to run
modern software, it seems (to me) that they'd want to run one that was
updated often and kept improving.  If that isn't a prime factor for a
person, then run a classic/old/DOS software which obviously isn't gonna
get updates because it's not being maintained.  I think I'm still not
explaining it well, but hopefully you get what I mean.  ;-)


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