Board:   bttfbbs public messages
Subject: Woah folks
From:    dingo
Date:    Sat Mar 14, 2020 15:29
Tags:    x/84

Hey Outtatime and others -- great job with the bbs :) Glad to see all the custom development and such, I'm thinking about brining telnet://1984.ws back today, I think I will, you've inspired me :)

This editor was a bit of a hack -- I know how to use it, but I don't think anyone else does, I think all BBS editors were like that, a bit tricky --- I think they called them "FSE"

I wrote this bbs software, by the way! Greets to y'all :) This message system, with its incomplete "tags" idea, was implemented in the backseat of a 5 hour car ride -- a literal race against battery power, I only began to execute it in the final hour, to conserve battery :)

Anyway, with BBS systems, it seems everyone just calls once. Maybe twice. There isn't anything to do !! Well I don't know what to do about that, as far as a "bulletin board system" goes, I think people are looking for a terminal slack-like experience.

I recently updated the "blessed" library to support 24-bit color and hyperlinks, I hope to demonstrate that soon, too. Maybe I'll do some "last updates" to x/84, since I'm not working right now, and logging into this system and seeing it lightly active inspires me :) thanks Outtatime!

Anyway, COVID-19 pandemic is just hitting my neighborhood, so like many others, I'm hunkering down for a hackathon :) best wishes and good health to y'all!


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