Board: [fsxNet] Mystic BBS discussion/support Subject: Redoing Mystic From: Accession(21:1/200) Date: Fri Aug 21, 2026 11:31 Hey Gamgee! On Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:19:56 -0500, you wrote: > Okay, yes, that's probably the correct thing(s) that happened. I guess > that would indeed be pretty irritating. Yeah, and that's basically what it was. He was so irritated/frustrated by it all he just went back to closed source, and most of those issues went away. Granted, I agree with others, that if he's going to finally abandon it, he should just let it go so others can at least try to preserve it. > 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 is > not appealing. I am impressed that quite a few newer BBS softwares have come about somewhat recently, however it seems once they're at a usable point in the progress, and only a couple people actually start using it, the developers seem to get bored and disappear, or just stop working on it. *shrug* > 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. ;-) I get what you're saying, and Mystic definitely was in the category of being updated often and constantly improving (I did quite a bit of bug testing and feature requests during these times - and still have it setup and fully modded in it's own VM in case he does come back again), up until 05/2024 which was the latest alpha. It gained quite a few followers when he came back and really started digging back into it (there was a huge hiatus between v1.07.3 and the 1.10 alphas (like a decade or more), then probably one or two more smaller down times (year or less) between 1.10 and 1.12, and now this one the last couple years). During one of those downtimes is when I switched to Synchronet, and when he came back the last time around, I fired Mystic back up as a secondary BBS on a non-standard port to continue testing. From that point on I had a feeling he would disappear again at some point, so I wasn't about to drop all the work I did on my Synchronet BBS. I imagine it's probably more frustrating to the people that were a part of the experience when he was around, now that he's not (again, I was one of them. As much as I didn't want to, I kind of predicted and prepared for what may or may not happen) - rather than the people just starting to use it now, knowing he's been gone for 2+ years already. If he decides to come back around, I would fire it all back up and continue to help where I can. I imagine he'd look into and squash all the known bugs, as well as cram a bunch more features into it in usually a small amount of time, then take another break. But, if he doesn't... that's ultimately his choice. *shrug* I think it's by far the best menu editor driven (with it's own programming language, as well as python support possibly even integrated into it's programming language as an added bonus - although I've never needed either of these as I hadn't found anything that /can't/ be done with the menu editor itself) BBS software out there. If there is a few bugs currently, I don't think they are show-stoppers or make things un-runnable at this point in time. Phew. That's the most I've written in awhile. :D Regards, Nick .... Sarcasm: because beating people up is illegal. --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20260425 * Origin: _thePharcyde telnet://bbs.pharcyde.org (Wisconsin) (21:1/200) .