Subj : Re: Getting new users
To   : boraxman
From : Tracker1
Date : Sun Oct 16 2022 19:34:44

On 10/15/22 04:08, boraxman wrote:
 >
 > Web forums can be responsive, but they are generally not built that
 > way.  Some discussion places, such as Reddit are horrendously slow,
 > and only made tolerable with TUI clients such as "Reddit Terminal
 > Viewer".

Yeah, in general web development, even when using good tools/frameworks 
usually winds up with some crazy dependencies that bring in the jungle 
for a banana... they can be good, but often aren't in practice, and the 
amount of effort it sometimes takes is more than a lot of people will make.

 > I would like to try NNTP to access a BBS discussion, I do mostly just
 > use the BBS itself, and occasionally use Multimail.  I do prefer a
 > "text mode" interface, which is less cluttered, allows focus.  This
 > view would be a minority view, I bet.
 >
 > Being able to upload/download a QWK packet without having to log in
 > through telnet and go through the BBS interface would be a major
 > hurdle overcome in making it more accessible.  This would mean that a
 > QWK reader on the mobile could draw new message, and upload, without
 > having to deal with the issues of rendering an 80x25 interface to be
 > navigated for updates.

Synchronet supports both of those use cases pretty well... NNTP is in 
the box, though not always the speediest thing.  As to QWK, it will 
generate on demand via FTP, would be nice if it had endpoints for HTTP 
GET/POST that worked the same way though.
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