Subj : the UI for echos
To   : August Abolins
From : Charles Pierson
Date : Wed Nov 18 2020 14:08:18

Hello, August Abolins.
On 11/18/20 5:25 PM you wrote:

 CP>> BBSes have all of the options to do pretty much that. Just not 
 CP>> necessarily pretty buttons.
 AA> An upgrade on layout would be good, especially when reading 
 AA> through the various echos of a network. I think there is only one 
 AA> Sychronet bbs that organizes the echos into categories first: 
 AA> Technical, Entertainment, Sysop, GeneralChat, etc.. and then all 
 AA> the echos spanning any of the other networks are featured in those 
 AA> categories. Most BBSes organize by network, and then just list the 
 AA> echos. A user does not always have a clear idea what echo is for 
 AA> what.  And then they have to look for the same thing in the next 
 AA> network. The default Sychro webby-thing is a good example.  Unless 
 AA> the user has the habit of using Ctrl-F to look for a string (chat, 
 AA> food, computer, books, music, etc) they are spending far too much 
 AA> time looking at a long list, missing something, and give up.

That comes down to the various programs, and the Sysops.

I believe at least several programs have the option for at least short descriptions for the message areas. Whether or not they are used is to each Sysop.

Web interfaces, I couldn't say. I've not really studied them much.


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