Subj : Re: My BBS.. To : MeaTLoTioN From : paulie420 Date : Tue Feb 23 2021 10:09:33 [Your entire reply was awesome and helpful-all sysOps should read and take note! You could stop right here, as I'm sure I'll type too many words below!] Me> pa> I'm enjoying 20 callers a day currently. Me> Me> That's real nice dude, yeah I have noticed in #subspace you're getting a Me> great amount of visitors, nice to see more 2o for beers banners in that Me> channel =) Yea, I really like your Discord bots. Both Meaty's Wormhole and The Underground channel have been places to bring together BBS people outside of the textmode world... I've been advertising The Underground Discord, and bringing my new users there. Its a good companion to the BBS, and fills in some spots where BBSes lack 'current tech'. I also am glad that 2o fOr beeRS has been showing up a little more in #subspace. :P Me> Keep advertising, it works... getting your textmode ad into the BBS Me> advert echoes is a good idea, as many as possible, with some regularity. Me> I post different adverts at different times of the week, you will notice Me> all my adverts are posted at precisely 13:37 on the day too. Me> Me> MRC adverts come out on Thursdays at 18:00, Fridays at 02:00, 10:00 and Me> 18:00 (all in UTC) so that people can get reminders closer to the event Me> Me> qUAntUm RaDio! gets an advert once a week, as does tqwNet and thE qUAntUm Me> wOrmhOlE. Thats something I can/need to work on. I have ONE textmode ad. I could come up with others, that highlight the different THINGS I've built/am building @ 2o.. I do have an issue tho - I tried to update my advert to add in new features on the bbs and it WOULDN'T display correctly. My current ad IS 80 columns wide, but it does display correctly... I think when I created the new one, for some reason, the 80c was part of the reason wasn't working. Its hard for me to change it to 79c, because of the graphic in the ANSI... Anyway, I need to figure out how to modify it AND have it display correctly... that and add a couple more adverts telling folks about the OTHER parts of 2o. :P Thanks... I just know I'm gonna have issues when trying to change the CURRENT ad, and couldn't figure it out the last time... Me> I wouldn't say my BBS is a "superpower" by any stretch of the Me> imagination, however I guess that my BBS is popular because (in no Me> particular order); I would say that it is the most popular BBS in 2021. Me> * it has a clean look interface, everything is easy to find Agree.. and this is super important, imo. My bbs is more of an explosion of all my 'bbs ideas'. Luckily, its kinda working ATM.. but yer board really FEELS solid. Me> * it's been running for ~800 days so word of mouth so to speak is Me> getting around Me> * telnet bbs guide I made sure I went over there and 'validated' or whatever my BBS... I need to go back and make sure its all setup perfect. being '2o fOr beeRS' is nice because I'm displayed so close to the start of the list. I've seen my BBS name in youtube videos, the Back2BBS doc, etc. because of just that. Me> * tqwNet Me> * website to promote it This is something I really wanna get into. I'm also starting to build a video studio - and I don't run a radio station or whatnot like you... but a website could help a lot. A blog, BBS info, videos and... 2o fOr beeRS stuff. I need to look into this; big time. Me> * me always being around to help people to do this or that I am just STARTING to do this. There is NOTHING wrong with it, and I'm happy to doso but... since I don't have all the knowledge you do I'm getting a lot of the 'How do I start a BBS' questions. I'm gonna create some BBS videos, that have been covered before, but with answers for 2021. I'm working on this... Me> * the documentary I already feel like I 'know' mL... I might not know Christian as much, but.. it was really cool to 'see' you on the Back2BBS episodes.. I'm glad you were willing and able to do that, and that you did. I also think it was really beneficial to your BBS. :P Kudos. Me> * offering unique things like my bbsforever.com dns forwarding service LOL-Constructive criticism, and it'll show how ignorant I was a year ago... when I saw that @ Quantum Wormhole, I didn't 'understand' that it was a DNS forwarding service - and/or I didn't understand what a DNS forwarding service was! It IS perfect, mL... however some paragraph explaining it to COMPLETE NEWBIES might help.. as even I was like WTF is this, how do I use it, etc etc... Its perfect... I didn't know, or I might have grabbed a 20ForBeers.bbsforever.com... Me> Unique service to offer to people that they can't get anywhere else, the Me> more captivating the more you will draw people in. Offer something Me> unique and fun or informational that can't be got from anywhere else Me> people will come back for more and more. Before you know it you have Me> regulars. :P I *think* this is why I am grabbing users NOW. I have a fairly unique (Personal Vintage Pin-Up collection) adult section, hosting eXoDOS archive and the eXtra Menu stuff I carry... some people like to login to the TALISMAN BBS or the x84 BBS. I'm adding an ENiGMA one, too - but these are tough because... jeez man I have to create and setup an entire BBS. Lots of work... I'm currently working on hosting recent (the last decade) hack dumps that have been released by Lulzsec, Antisec, Anonymous and... a few others. All the Julian Assange Legal Docs/Info/Videos, Chinga La Migra Hacks, Fuck FBI Friday Hacks, Shooting the Sheriffs Saturday Hack, Corrupt Brazil Data Dump, and a few others. I'm working on a cool way for users to have to 'hack' into the data - to get the access flag. Right now, I'm working on a 'linux terminal' where a user can 'cat filename.ext' and run a 'binary executable' file to give themselves access - but its coming slowly, I don't know how many users will KNOW LINUX and... I've been thinking maybe I need to drop it down a notch. I also have ANSiStory on the back burner... which is dumb, as I know almost exactly what I want it to LOOK LIKE in the end. This will be a BBS menu driven history of ANSi, along with ANSI for the user to consume in several different formats. From scrolling @ 38.4k to using the viewer to using the menu-viewer... and other ideas. :P Anyway, I'm working on - things. I laugh often at the amount of time spent... but I try to remember that this can be around forever. Thanks for your help... I certainly listen when it comes from mL. :P |07p|15AULIE|1142|07o |08......... --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/01/26 (Raspberry Pi/32) * Origin: 2o fOr beeRS bbs>>>20ForBeers.com:1337 (1337:3/129) .