Looking for neat, active online bbs systems. reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nats2roh · 2019-10-31 22:58 I don't own an old computer so I look for online stuff like HTML5 and flash and stuff. Does anyone have one of these? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ILikeBumblebees · 2019-11-01 00:06 Most modern BBSes are accessible via telnet. See here: https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ozznixon · 2019-11-01 01:17 www.exchangebbs.com Is a web interface to the BBS we are currently developing. You can also connect to it directly in a terminal as exchangebbs.com port 38400 like the old baud rate. ;-) We are in the process of making sure that terminal supports all ANSI sequences, Italics, Bold, Underline, Strikethrough, etc. Next round is 2d TILE game design... Ozz ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nevarro · 2019-11-01 23:19 Hello, If you're looking for a web portal to an active BBS that provides the old favorite BBS games, come check out https://serionbbs.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jessrond · 2019-11-02 23:27 http://www.bitsunrise.com but 95% of the accounts are me spamming ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mro_1337 · 2019-11-06 03:41 who is "we" ? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ackpffft · 2019-11-08 14:59 As far as I can tell, modern telnet BBSes are mostly just nostalgia driven ghost towns. They might make your 'neat' qualifier (particularly if you're mostly interested in a trip down memory lane), but I haven't come across many of them that I'd say are particularly 'active'. (I should add that I'm mostly talking about the message bases and the social aspect of them...it's possible that there is more activity with the door games and I'm just not aware because that's not something I'm in to these days.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nevarro · 2019-11-08 18:42 Yeah, well The Realm of Serion is active, primarily due to the current LoRD Tournament going on :) The BBS doesn't do message bases. It's focus from day 1 has been providing those great door games from back in the day. It's true, the activity to BBSes is a trickle of what it once was, but there are still a handful of people that log on to this BBS daily. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ackpffft · 2019-11-08 22:28 Yep, hence my caveat about my not really being into door games these days and my use of 'mostly'. ;) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nevarro · 2019-11-09 02:20 You're right that most BBSes are a ghost town of nostalgia... I'm hoping for a retro computing revival. If I didn't advertise the tournament, Serion would be the same. BBSes are a special aspect of computing. I've gotten my two older kids to participate with the BBS and a couple of door games a little bit, but text mode doesn't compete well with what's around these days... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2019-11-09 02:21 [removed] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ackpffft · 2019-11-09 03:27 Sure. I'm not dissing your quest for users, by any stretch. Hopefully you're serving up the exact experience the OP is looking for with regards to the games, and you'll gain another user. (I did check out your site, by the way. I dig the layout and the theme of it, particularly how cohesive it all was.) Like the bulk of people in this subreddit, I was a sysop (or a co) on a number of BBSes back in the day. First in the 703, later in the 303/970. IME there were usually three main types of users when BBSes were really a thing: social users interested in the message bases, "leeches" interested in the files, and gamers, interested in the door games (and, if we're being honest, mostly only interested in TW or LORD). I fell pretty heaving into that first group, and that's always sort of been my basis for 'judging' the activity of a BBS, and it's the basis for my judging the lack of activity on systems in general. Out of curiosity, what are you hoping/expecting the retro computer revival to look like? I have my doubts about such a thing occurring. There's a certain amount of arcane knowledge required that I suspect most people just don't have the patience for. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nevarro · 2019-11-09 21:47 Thanks about the website. I wanted to give it a retro feel. I haven't spent alot of time on it, but it serves it's purpose :) I think your grouping of users pretty accurately describes the main functions BBSes have to offer. It's spot on. As a young man in the 90's, I did mostly files and games. Message bases weren't really a thing in my area, so the communication I did was mostly through multi- node chat. I'm hoping for a revival along the lines of hobbyists and HAM radio. Of course, today, there's technology that replaces and improves what HAM radio does. But, it draws a hobbyist following even with the required testing and certification. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ackpffft · 2019-11-10 19:56 The amateur radio scene must be different where you're at than it is here. Here it's 75% sixty and over. The only fresh blood I see in these parts seems to be coming from the prepper crowd. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ozznixon · 2019-11-26 05:00 "We" is first person sense is: (1) Me, (2) Myself, and (3) I. "We" as in who is helping test the system: My Alpha Sysops. "We" as who has connected and given feedback: Roughly 70% of my users. ./\. Overall, *I* do all of the work, *I* have coded the framework, *I* own the copyright to all work (original work, FWIW), and *I* am far enough along, that *I* am working with others now, who can develop ARTWORK, MODS, and potential RUN and PROMOTE the product. '\/' However, none of us like to see a product that has been in development for 19 years (language, compiler, script engine, Apache module, cross- platform support, BBS, Mailer, Tosser, etc) coming from an Individual ~ as they never stick to it, and cannot support big business. Except, I can, I have, and I do. ;-) ... okay, I thought it was funny. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mro_1337 · 2019-12-01 00:34 you can just say I instead of we. there is nobody else. makes it look like you're trying to appear to be something you are not. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ozznixon · 2019-12-10 23:55 Yes, I am I... However, as stated there are other parties getting involved in the product ~ Legacy Krew is helping with ANSI, and a couple others are helping put headers and comments in the source for the end-users. So, I will probably keep referencing We as a team, and Wii as something that I do for exercise LOL. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mro_1337 · 2019-12-15 03:29 hey could you please remove bbses.info from your pulldown menu? it's not open to public. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ozznixon · 2019-12-27 10:56 Sure thing. I found it from the listing on Telnet BBS Guide. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mro_1337 · 2019-12-28 05:56 yeah, he's supposed to remove it too.