Subj : BBS Population
To   : Irish_Monk
From : Nightfox
Date : Sun Oct 02 2022 10:36:47

  Re: BBS Population
  By: Irish_Monk to All on Sun Oct 02 2022 09:19 am

 Ir> So I am just curious. I have been back into BBSing for a few months now.
 Ir> Its a blast! I see a lot of chatting about "making more popular, more
 Ir> users, etc..". So my question is, since I havnt been around BBS's since
 Ir> 1995, how has the BBS world been? Is this the most "dead" its been? Did it
 Ir> pick up a couple years back with everyone being stuck in their homes for
 Ir> Covid? (Seems a lot of people got back into hobbies they did not have time

I stopped running my original 90s BBS in 2000 and started up again in 2007 when I realized some people still run and use BBSes.  But even since 2007, it seems the BBS community is not nearly what it used to be at its height in the 90s.  Lately, I mostly read & post on a couple message networks and I see some of the same names in both places.  My current BBS does get some callers, but I remember getting more callers on my local dialup BBS in the 90s.

Also, one sign of the low popularity of BBSes is when I try to search for BBS-related things on Google, sometimes relevant search results don't appear on the first page unless I use fairly specific terms related to BBSes.  For example, if you just search for BBS on Google, the first search result (right now anyway) is BBS Wheels (for cars).

Nightfox
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