What’s the best way to support the BBS community? reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- manager_dave · 2018-06-25 20:18 I miss the old BBS days and would love to support the community and help keep them alive. What’s the best way for me to do this? It seems like there are a lot of boards running but not that many users. Is there any way to promote their use, or is being a user myself the best I can do? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nolageek · 2018-06-25 20:50 Yep. Be active in the boards you call. Sysops get lots of people that call once and never call again - it's always great to log into your board and see someone calling regularly... especially try to post message in the local message areas (as well as the networked areas, of course! hehe) .. things like that. :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WhoIsMaxMouse · 2018-06-26 06:01 i been thinking the same thing, alot of bbses are still active and the sysops are activly developing alot of mods and games still for the bbs community today. id love to see some kinda of centra news station for updateds mods and new releases by sysops. i noticed also alot of bbses opening up every month on [telnetbbsguide.com](https://telnetbbsguide.com) so i been thinking of opening up somethingwhere id do a blog od youtuve or both and post updates on these new releases and do bbs reviews. right now there is no central community source for everything that is actively promoted and marketed. would u like to would on something together... actually email me now. 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The retro market is huge now I think it would do well. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mro_1337 · 2018-06-28 05:13 this bot is SO not annoying! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mro_1337 · 2018-06-28 05:14 that's a good question. i think as a new user you should give sysops your suggestions. you cant really make dent just by calling a bbs on your own. and i tried bbs promotions for years and it never panned out. people that used to call them talked about how good it WAS, but had zero desire to go back. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- timbernutz · 2018-07-02 23:15 I would say push for smartphone app support. It's not that file hosting, forums and community's are not popular any more. It's just that text everything has mostly disappeared. Web forums are dying but still very viable (but smart phone apps suck).file hosting are booming. Social networks are booming. But lots of people are looking to be off the web and on smart phones. All that has gone before needs not be discarded, ansii art can be displayed like images, games can be converted.etc ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nolageek · 2018-07-09 21:25 But then it's not a BBS anymore. You're telling him that the best way to support the BBS community is to suggest they abandon the BBS community. :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- timbernutz · 2018-07-09 22:31 Bulletin board services are about the community that they create, if all the same features are there (group messages, files, mail etc) it's still a bbs. It's not your grandfather's bbs, issuing 1992 color ansi text in blazing fast 28.8kps. But if bbs were about that and not the community they held fill your boots, most of the software is free and easy to host (I expect you could even run a bbs on your phone in magic dos box and have people tenet in). Me I would rather bbs system evolve and the community be relevant again, not pictures and videos of cats sleeping in weird positions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nolageek · 2018-07-10 04:55 so you want... reddit? but.. with games? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- timbernutz · 2018-07-10 05:11 Reddit has no files,very little local content, and no sysop directing everything. message boards have not significantly changed, so for message aspect that part would be similar. It's a total content thing for one ideal. A community around a similar ideal, not a all encompassing, everything for everyone idea line reddit or Facebook etc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- YQG · 2018-07-20 18:07 I'll tell you though, phone is good for bite-sized text input but I would (and do) go nuts trying to type in anything of significant length, like a message board/BBS post. I feel like I'm in the minority for that though.