Board:   [fsxNet] Mystic BBS discussion/support
Subject: Re: Redoing Mystic
From:    Gamgee(21:2/138)
Date:    Fri Aug 21, 2026 17:34

-=> poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Gamgee <=-

 -=> Gamgee wrote to Nightfox <=-

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

 pF> I've run Synchronet for (omygod!) 22 years now, and I've been tempted
 pF> by Mystic. I like the feel of it, the ability to run other message
 pF> formats, and I'd rather dabble in Python than Javascript.

I've played with Mystic a little too, and have always found it to be
VERY non-intuitive.  I can never find what I'm looking for in
setup/config options.  Admittedly I haven't spent much time trying.
Don't have much care about message formats, and Python/JS are equally
mystifying to me.  :-)

 pF> The Synchronet dev community has done some interesting things over the
 pF> years, and bugs get fixed quickly. An open source Mystic worked on by a
 pF> group alongside Synchronet would be a great thing indeed. I think you'd
 pF> see a lot of ideas bouncing back and forth between teams.

Oh, no doubt about those points.  Too bad the author won't do that, and
isn't even in the conversation any more.  Seems a very strange approach
to things, to me.



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