What is the deal with BBBS? reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr_William_H_Cosby · 2020-09-09 06:20 To each his or her own, but holy balls, BBBS has got to have the nastiest user experience and interface of any currently viable BBS software. It looks like a BBS package that developed a terrible crack habit when it was in the middle of growing up and just never quite...blossomed. I started searching for more information on it. Man these guys are really wound up about their license, given the bizarre hell ride of this software: https://www.bbbs.net/registration.html Does anyone run this? What does it give you that any other less addled package like Mystic or Synchronet doesn't? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- norcaldan707 · 2020-09-09 06:24 Being wound up is right... Nothing phpmybb can't do for free. BBSs exist for nostalgia, there is no real reason to try to run one for commercial reasons .. nothing a a lamp stack can't solve under a day ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CharlieBrown197 · 2020-09-09 11:27 And while we're at it, what's the deal with airplane food? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- euphraties247 · 2020-09-09 13:09 Why are buildings called buildings, when they are already built! Shouldn't they be called builts!? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- marx2k · 2020-09-09 13:35 Why do you drive on a parkway and park on a driveway? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- lucidphreak · 2020-09-09 13:52 been around a looooong time.. probably went through some piracy issues so they got anal.. but yea, its never (since i started in 1983) been much of a player in thebbs scene.... I think maybe for a short time it got popular because it could be used as a PPP or SLIP (dont remember which) server - but after the internet because proliferated that was no longer a plus either.... ​ just run mystic, or any number of current "modern" telnet/ssh bbs's... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- samalex01 · 2020-09-09 14:43 It's like MajorBBS/WG, isn't there still a hefty licensing fee to use it? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- cwstephenson71 · 2020-09-09 15:48 🤣😂🤣 You guys are awesome! Gave me a much needed morning chuckle! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PraiseBobSlackOff · 2020-09-09 17:33 Makes Waffle BBS seem like a user friendly experience. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2020-09-13 05:12 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mmunson · 2020-10-03 21:51 They still ask for coin for the product if your a free bbs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2020-10-04 15:27 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- recourse7 · 2020-10-18 15:30 Why shouldn't something be open source? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2020-10-20 03:03 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- recourse7 · 2020-10-20 11:16 Yes I agree it is up to the dev. But why SHOULDN'T something be open source? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2020-10-23 00:28 [deleted]