Is there an IRC channel for users who want to get into BBS's ? reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- knightwize · 2022-05-21 05:52 There is a subreddit .. So we should have an irc channel .. right ? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mylaptopisburningme · 2022-05-21 07:36 Wouldn't IRC defeat the purpose of a BBS? It was IRC and Internet that killed BBS's. Now a BBS chat, OK. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- gnu2tux · 2022-05-21 10:41 Log into any of the BBSes with MRC! which is the BBS version of IRC, Multi-relay-chat. If you're not sure of which BBSes are on it, you can use my one: bbs.alsgeeklab.com:2323. I was chatting to 15 people on it this morning who were all on different BBSes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dmine45 · 2022-05-21 11:08 MRC is the BBS equivalent of IRC, and it's pretty active. A number of BBSes have it. The Diamond Mine Online ([bbs.dmine.net](https://bbs.dmine.net) port 24) has it as well. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- auric0m · 2022-05-21 12:11 hold fast features MRC as well as some IRC destinations populated by bbs dwellers in our doors section (adding a new channel i discovered later today in fact! https://holdfastbbs.ca / telnet.holdfastbbs.ca:2323 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- twkisner · 2022-05-21 16:45 irc.synchro.net has Many many Sysops and developers that run Synchronet BBS. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ten-oh-four · 2022-05-21 19:39 I think your better bet these days is Discord - I don’t have any links in front of me but Discord is much more active than IRC. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- knightwize · 2022-05-22 07:08 True. If you could share some links to active servers, please do ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ten-oh-four · 2022-05-22 07:44 https://discord.gg/9gt4XpxD ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2022-05-22 22:18 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mro_0000 · 2022-05-22 22:20 with my years of experience i've come to see that bbs people just idle for the most part and don't talk on irc or discord. they don't participate in talking. if they need help they get their help and don't participate or just leave. ​ that makes for very boring chat. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mro_0000 · 2022-05-22 22:20 i never saw it active. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mylaptopisburningme · 2022-05-22 23:09 What could they have done? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2022-05-22 23:17 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mylaptopisburningme · 2022-05-23 00:22 That doesn't make sense. The BBS I was on tried, they were the first to offer internet. There was no saving the BBS they were 2 separate things. Annex is still around as a provider. I don't see how they could have kept the local BBS and the global internet, if anyone could it would have been The Annex. As the internet took over, more people went to the WWW than a BBS. It's time was just over sadly. Met a lot of great people back then. https://annex.net/about-us/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2022-05-23 09:32 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mylaptopisburningme · 2022-05-23 10:58 You dont seem to be saying anything that could have fixed BBS's other than speculation. I can compare it to the horse and buggy when the car came along.... Many wanted to keep the horse and buggy but the auto won. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- wndrbr3d · 2022-05-23 13:37 Most major boards transitioned to ISP's in the late 90s. In fact, most regional dial-up internet providers that weren't one of the big three (AOL, Prodigy, Compuserve) were most likely former BBS's. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- wndrbr3d · 2022-05-23 13:38 The number of downvotes on your reply is embarrassing for this community. It's 2022 people, Discord is much more convenient a communication platform than any recommended here. I can access it anywhere, easy to use on my phone, share files, pictures, links, etc. People have a choice to use it or not, and that's fine, but let's not pretend like IRC/MRC are better platforms. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2022-05-23 17:36 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2022-05-23 17:38 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mylaptopisburningme · 2022-05-23 17:54 And I am asking you what the solution was, you have 27 years of looking back at it. And I hear nothing from you. What would have kept people using BBS's? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2022-05-23 20:14 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mylaptopisburningme · 2022-05-23 21:47 Your solution "accept the internet instead of reject it. banded together with other sysops instead of being separate. integrate technology sooner" That makes no sense. I saw my local BBS accept it. Band together with other sysops? To do what? Integrate tech sooner? What does that even mean. The internet was coming, its like trying to stop the horse and buggy. I ask because I don't see what could have kept BBS's going. I've been there since a 300 baud modem in 1983. There was zero saving BBS's. What could a BBS offer that the internet didnt? Other than local community. So you have had all this time what would have saved it? Your answer really isnt an answer, its pure speculation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ten-oh-four · 2022-05-23 22:54 Ha! Didn’t realize I was downvoted! Man next thing someone’s going to post about BBSes on Reddit instead of fidonet ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2022-05-24 02:29 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mylaptopisburningme · 2022-05-24 02:59 Well I was expecting you to say they could have done some door that did something joining the 2, some idea that was abandoned. I don't know what your experience was. On the BBS I was on, they gave us space for html pages, slip/ppp access, email. And little by little I saw less and and less people log in because they were using a cheaper internet provider. What did you want a new Telearena while the internet was giving us MUDs? It's time was over. Only reason we are here is nostalgia. BTW porn really moves technology, within a very short time it went from shitty GIFs with BBS ads to better quality content. I ran adult sites during the dot com boom, I saw the numbers, we were doing 10-12 mil a year by playing with html for search engines.... The internet offered too much. All I am asking you on is what could have been done? What would have been the magic sauce? My BBS embraced the internet and it killed them. They wrote for MajorBBS, they were the first in my area to give us a glimpse of the internet. I remember even when they offered a GUI BBS interface. The internet offered too much to pay $20 to your local BBS also who probably had a 2-3 hour limit unless your went with a real IP. You dont have an answer, I don't think anyone did. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mro_0000 · 2022-05-24 04:45 they are mrc fanboys. whenever i go on mrc it's dead. there's a few mystic guys that use it. they are in their own little world inside our little world of bbsing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mro_0000 · 2022-05-24 04:45 DOWNVOTED ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2022-09-03 11:50 [removed] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2022-09-03 11:51 [removed] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2022-09-03 11:52 [removed]