Subj : Synchronet (was: TBBS)
To   : Rob Swindell
From : Eric Oulashin
Date : Thu May 12 2016 07:08 pm

  Re: TBBS
  By: Rob Swindell to Eric Oulashin on Thu May 12 2016 17:22:32

 >> remember if most BBS packages worked like that; however, Synchronet's
 >> reader interface seemed odd to me.  I tend to like to see a list of
 >> messages and choose
 >> which ones I want to read based on the subject (although I do know
 >> that message threads tend to drift off the subject after a while).  I
 >> ended up making my own message lister/reader mod for Synchronet where
 >> I could bring up a list of messages and choose the ones I want to
 >> read, rather than being (pretty much) forced to read through every
 >> single one. 

 RS> Synchronet's built-in message reading interface was heavily influenced by
 RS> WWIV. So if you're used to WWIV or one of its spin-offs (RG, Tag), it
 RS> would seem familiar to you (e.g. use 'T' to list the next 10 messages, 'L'
 RS> to list them all).

 RS> Of course, I've seen and used other BBS software which always wanted the
 RS> user to "pick" a message to begin reading and I never liked that design,
 RS> probably just because it's just not what I was used to.

 RS> So it's great that you were able to design something more to your liking
 RS> and integrate that with Synchronet for your users and other sysops who
 RS> prefer a different take on traditional BBS message reading. The fact that
 RS> you were able to do that (and of course, I had to make enable some
 RS> external "hooks" and probably fix some bugs along the way to make it more
 RS> "seemless") is a testiment both to your programming abilities and the
 RS> extensiblity of Synchronet. 

I do think Synchronet is a great piece of software, for its extensibility and
flexibility.  I just re-read my comment about the reader interface, and I want
to be clear that I was not intending to sound negative about Synchronet. 
Synchronet's extensibility via scripting in JS is one of my favorite things
about it and is one of the main reasons why I'm running Synchronet.  And I
appreciate you continued work on Synchronet.  Thank you very much for adding
the ability to allow an external reader script to be integrated more into
Synchronet.

Eric
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