The most active BBS? reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2016-09-04 12:31 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2016-09-04 13:43 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ScootyPuff-Sr · 2016-09-04 18:29 I understand "PTT" to be one of the largest and most active surviving BBSes. Wikipedia says 1.5 million users and it can handle over 150,000 simultaneous logins, with 500,000 comments on 20,000 articles... daily. Almost a shame I don't speak/read Mandarin. PTT is in Taiwan. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2016-09-04 19:53 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2016-09-04 20:01 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ShooterJennings · 2016-09-20 00:53 I'd love for you to come check out ours at Bitsunrise.com we're pretty active and we are making new door games and BBS apps. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Labdisco · 2016-09-25 22:15 fwiw, you don't make it super clear how to log in as a new user. ... pressing enter doesn't work, and neither does new. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ShooterJennings · 2016-09-25 22:36 All u need to do is login as your name and if youre not in the user base, then it will prompt if u want to make a new account. Guess I thought that was farely normal but im gonna make a new login matrix soon. Thanks for pointing out. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Labdisco · 2016-09-25 23:08 Ah. I probably would have figured that out if there wasn't already a "new" in the database, I didn't try anything else, I would have just dropped and relogged when the tell us about yourself prompts came up. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ShooterJennings · 2016-09-25 23:11 I keep deleting the new and someone else does it again. Lol. Ok ill explain better on landing page ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Labdisco · 2016-09-26 03:13 Well, no biggie. At least that means I'm not the only one, though :P ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Labdisco · 2016-09-26 03:30 Okay, I logged in. Here's the newb user experience- Keep in mind I was 13 when bbs was big. Huh, new bbs? I'll try that. Oh, can't log in. Oh, instructed on how to log in. guess I'll try that. Oh, Tradewars! Well, it's not Mutants, but that's my second fav. Let's fire that bad boy up! Oh, doesn't work if you use the link provided by the guy to try it out because it's telnet only. ...meh, I feel like i've done my due diligence trying. I'm out. And so then I was out. I like the rough format, I like that you have a bunch of shit-talkers, and I... didn't like that one of your login screens repeated itself, but that's a personal issue I have with repetition. Could've even been new users only. But man and or lady, you make a lot of assumptions about what users are going to know. In a field that could benefit from the maximum hand-holding possible if it was going to build up again, I don't know that I think that's wise. Spell it right out- New account? Do this! Expect to play this? You need this! This is how you -get- that, so you can do this! I have a telnet dosbox setup, thanks to Starbase21- if you log in there on their webpage, there is a small army of links on the bottom of the page that'll get you running like it could have been in the old days... I just use the example because this is the kind of thing you could do to expand user-base. Anyway, just something to pay attention to, I guess, if you were interested. I'm way more fucking spoiled than I used to be 23 years ago, and I expect things to work. If they're not going to work, I want to know why, I want to know how to fix it. I don't want to embark on a quest. Again, this is a lot of words, and over text it's going to seem ranty. It's NOT SUPPOSED TO BE. I took the time to type all this out because nothing would make me happier than seeing a successful BBS scene... and, to be fair, my opinion could be total garbage if nobody else wants the things I want from it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Rilack_Miller · 2016-09-26 09:23 Hey this is pretty cool. How much data does something like a BBS draw? When are the active times? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ShooterJennings · 2016-09-26 11:07 Thanks for this. Not sure why tw isnt working, I did some recent changes to the bbs machine which may have messed that up unknowingly. Ok gonna work on 'streamlining' the experience. The "double screen" for new users only happens the first time you sign up ever because the bbs displays the "new user" ansi immediately when you sign up as an introduction to the bbs and then as well every time you login as long as you are a "new user" . So i'll look into seeing about that. I appreciate the detail, always want to make the bbs feel easier in flow. Weve done a lot to customize the experience, but clearly you have issues with it. So I can do more to improve it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ShooterJennings · 2016-09-26 12:12 We usually get about 10 unique repeat users a day that call. Doesnt take up barely any bandwidth. Most active times are during the afternoon (folks from work dialing in) and during evenings (post dinner time). Thanks for dialing, i'm updating your user stats today to reflect Register'd ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ShooterJennings · 2016-09-26 16:48 Also, I fixed TW, thanks for noticing that. i tried to test everything when i migrated my machines, but somehow that one just stopped working after the fact. But I fixed it. So thanks for that, hope you visit again, upgraded your account. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Rilack_Miller · 2016-09-26 17:50 Cool. I was asking since I have no internet where I am staying and mobile data is precious. But this is good news! Hope to poke around a bit more. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ShooterJennings · 2016-09-26 18:10 Where are you located? Theres ways to dial in as well... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Rilack_Miller · 2016-09-26 20:08 In hungary. Not a rush, I'm getting optics in a month or two and have a decent connection at uni. I just recently started looking into all of the BBS stuff. Really glad it is still active! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Labdisco · 2016-09-28 00:06 so players must battle eachother to steal their items and artifacts and complete his own collection. need a one spacebar in the eachother above ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ShooterJennings · 2016-09-28 00:10 Why thank you ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Labdisco · 2016-09-28 00:21 Looks like TW needs to be activated, there's no game to launch into ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ShooterJennings · 2016-09-28 01:17 Yes somehow in my migration my serial number didnt transfer. Will be fixed soon. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ShooterJennings · 2016-09-28 01:17 Thanks for testing the bbs out