Board:   [fsxNet] Mystic BBS discussion/support
Subject: Re: Redoing Mystic
From:    Gamgee(21:2/138)
Date:    Fri Aug 21, 2026 12:33

-=> Accession wrote to Gamgee <=-

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

 Ac> Yeah, and that's basically what it was. He was so irritated/frustrated
 Ac> by it all he just went back to closed source, and most of those issues
 Ac> went away.

 Ac> Granted, I agree with others, that if he's going to finally abandon it,
 Ac> 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 <anything> is
 > not appealing.

 Ac> I am impressed that quite a few newer BBS softwares have come about
 Ac> somewhat recently, however it seems once they're at a usable point in
 Ac> the progress, and only a couple people actually start using it, the
 Ac> developers seem to get bored and disappear, or just stop working on it.
 Ac> *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.  ;-)

 Ac> I get what you're saying, and Mystic definitely was in the category of
 Ac> being updated often and constantly improving (I did quite a bit of bug
 Ac> testing and feature requests during these times - and still have it
 Ac> setup and fully modded in it's own VM in case he does come back again),
 Ac> up until 05/2024 which was the latest alpha. It gained quite a few
 Ac> followers when he came back and really started digging back into it
 Ac> (there was a huge hiatus between v1.07.3 and the 1.10 alphas (like a
 Ac> decade or more), then probably one or two more smaller down times (year
 Ac> or less) between 1.10 and 1.12, and now this one the last couple
 Ac> years). During one of those downtimes is when I switched to Synchronet,
 Ac> and when he came back the last time around, I fired Mystic back up as a
 Ac> secondary BBS on a non-standard port to continue testing. From that
 Ac> point on I had a feeling he would disappear again at some point, so I
 Ac> wasn't about to drop all the work I did on my Synchronet BBS.

 Ac> I imagine it's probably more frustrating to the people that were a part
 Ac> of the experience when he was around, now that he's not (again, I was
 Ac> one of them. As much as I didn't want to, I kind of predicted and
 Ac> prepared for what may or may not happen) - rather than the people just
 Ac> starting to use it now, knowing he's been gone for 2+ years already. If
 Ac> he decides to come back around, I would fire it all back up and
 Ac> continue to help where I can. I imagine he'd look into and squash all
 Ac> the known bugs, as well as cram a bunch more features into it in
 Ac> usually a small amount of time, then take another break. But, if he
 Ac> doesn't... that's ultimately his choice. *shrug*

 Ac> I think it's by far the best menu editor driven (with it's own
 Ac> programming language, as well as python support possibly even
 Ac> integrated into it's programming language as an added bonus - although
 Ac> I've never needed either of these as I hadn't found anything that
 Ac> /can't/ be done with the menu editor itself) BBS software out there. If
 Ac> there is a few bugs currently, I don't think they are show-stoppers or
 Ac> make things un-runnable at this point in time.

 Ac> Phew. That's the most I've written in awhile. :D

LOL, and it's good stuff.  Thanks for the insights, and the effort.  :-)



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