Board:   bttfbbs public messages
Subject: Woah folks
From:    max
To:      dingo
Date:    Thu Mar 26, 2020 08:42
Tags:    (none)

On Saturday Mar-14, 2020 at 07:29:46 PM UTC, dingo wrote:
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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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Hi Dingo,
Thanks for creating such a cool and unique experience. I grew up in the era of the apple II and C64. We were too poor to afford one though. Thanks for enabling me to experience something that I missed growing up. Sorry to hear you aren't working right now, best of luck for the future and stay healthy.


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