Subj : IcyBoard 0.1.6 release To : Omnibrain From : Accession Date : Sun Oct 12 2025 11:20 am Hey Omnibrain! On Wed, 08 Oct 2025 23:49:18 -0700, you wrote: > Will add it to the docs. Some information for you, and I'm trying to be as descriptive in some of this as I can. If you have any questions or require more information, please feel free to reach out: I created a Virtualbox VM, installed Omarchy and ran updates to the latest. INSTALL.txt seems to be geared towards downloading an archive you've created. Cloning the repo there is no "bin" directory. README.md took me to gettingstarted.md, in which "cargo build --release" worked without any issue, taking about 6 minutes and 40 seconds to complete (it downloaded and installed hundreds of packages probably needed by rust or something). More references to a 'bin' directory in gettingstarted.md as well, but after building, all of my binaries were in 'icy_board/target/release'. I did notice the 'run.sh' you provide builds a debug version (I didn't notice this or look at this script until after I had already built the release version). If you want testers and help tracking down bugs, you may want to change the '--release' option in gettingstarted.md so early testers build a debug version, that way backtraces and the like can be done. After finding the binaries, I ran './icbsetup /home/user/icb/' to get it out of needing to traverse into 6 directories deep (source was installed at '/home/user/src'). Worked as expected. I did have to create symlinks to all binaries in the 'icy_board/target/release' directory to the actual BBS directory, for ease of use, though. My preference, not necessary. Just a quick list of what I've run into so far (so I don't forget): - When applying as a new user, the "Please enter city/state" question currently does not allow commas or spaces. In my case, a normal answer there would be "Pewaukee, WI (or Wisconsin if not abbreviating the state)". Also, the birthday field does not accept "/", even though the date format in icbsetup is set to "1) MM/DD/YY". I can see spaces not being allowed here (which they're not), but if "-" is indeed allowed and works (I didn't try it, just noticed "/" didn't work at the time), the formats should probably be changed to reflect that, and the default prompt should probably be changed to tell the applicant how to specifically format their birthday. - When you login and are inputting your real name or alias, only capital letters are inputted. Anywhere else I've come across, including the application process.. lowercase can be used. This one is probably an outstanding limitation from the original PCBoard itself, as I remember not liking the name only using capitol letters. - When you hit "B" for bulletins, you're essentially stuck there. I can't hit "Q" or "X" or even ENTER to go back to the main menu. After I hit something like "S" (I started hitting a bunch of letters to see how to get out of it), which is a search for text funcion (probably not needed from the bulletins menu) I was able hit enter to go back to the main menu. - When listing users with "USER", if you're only allowing aliases (not real names) nothing is listed under "User Name", but my location and last on date were there. - "V" to view your statistics doesn't seem to do anything. - "WHO" command doesn't do anything for me (at the time I am the only one logged in, so maybe that's why - but shouldn't be the case as that command should probably always work). - "icbsysmgr > edit users file > any user > gender" is listed twice. This is about as far as I got so far. I'll continue to mess with it when I have time, and will try to plug in some PPEs to see how they work out. Definitely digging the old PCBoard vibes though! Just so happens I have PCB installed in a Windows VM with PPEs already installed there. I didn't try importing old PCB stuff this time around since I had so much difficulty/resistance the last time. I just wanted to install this flashy new software and check it out right away. ;) Regards, Nick .... Sarcasm: because beating people up is illegal. --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20250409 * Origin: _thePharcyde telnet://bbs.pharcyde.org (Wisconsin) (21:1/200) .