Subj : Comparison of BBS Software
To   : Gorath
From : halcy0n
Date : Thu Feb 07 2019 18:01:24

 Go> and was hoping y'all could give me a little rundown of different bbs
 Go> softwares to run, e.g., magicka, mytic, enigma, and their particular
 Go> strengths and weaknesses.
 Go> 
 Go> It's likely that most of our users will have no prior experience with
 Go> bbses.

I'm sure everyone will have their own opinions, so just take mine with a
grain of salt. Just my general opinions:

Mystic & Synchronet are the two most common terminal based softwares that are
the most modern, updated and current (as far as I can tell). That being said,
they're also the most modern as far as user interface, and usability goes for
a "new user", ie: someone who has never used one before. Synchronet in
particular has a lot of ways to connect and manipulate it not in a terminal
environment. Out of the two I would say Mystic is the modern interpretation
of the way BBS's "used to be", while Synchronet adds a lot more features
outside the board itself. 

Enigma is similar to Mystic, but is much newer and still under constant
development. 

It depends a lot on what type of experience you want. Do you want it to be
like it was back in the hay-day, or do you want it to be BBSing in 2019?
That's kind of the difference between most of them now.

I also wouldn't look too much into sound/music on a board, as that isn't
really too common. But something like Searchlight or other non-ansi based
software would be something you would look into for that.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A39 2018/04/21 (Windows/32)
 * Origin: Black Flag <ACiD Telnet HQ> blackflagbbs.com (46:1/104)

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