Board:   [fsxNet] Mystic BBS discussion/support
Subject: Re: Redoing Mystic
From:    Nightfox(21:1/137)
Date:    Fri Aug 21, 2026 07:49

  Re: Re: Redoing Mystic
  By: Adept to Nightfox on Fri Aug 21 2026 08:21 am

 Ni>> I wonder if there's a chance g00r00 might be willing to make Mystic
 Ni>> open-source and let others contribute to it.

 Ad> I think that'd be a neat idea, but Mystic _used_ to be open source, and
 Ad> g00r00 felt it worked poorly enough that he stopped it.

 Ad> I think the general idea is that there's not exactly a giant amount of
 Ad> people willing to work on the Mystic code base who have the skills / time
 Ad> / etc. to do so, so it being open source wound up just being more hassle.

Yeah, Accession mentioned it was made open-source and someone made a fork of it, and there were also issues being reported on that fork instead of g00r00's main version. I could see how that could be an issue..  I didn't think of people forking it to make a separate software package; ideally, the purpose would be for Mystic to be maintained rather than forking another software package.

One thing with closed-source software is that if the developer disappears for some reason, then we may never get any updates. Maybe people could write a clone, and reverse-engineer Mystic (perhaps with the help of AI), but that isn't perfect and could introduce more bugs.

Nightfox
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