Subj : Re: BBS-independent MRC client (door)?
To   : Alpha
From : paulie420
Date : Sun Feb 21 2021 05:07 am

 Al> MRC is where it's at right now, especially with all the meatups that have
 Al> been happening... There's the Mystic BBS MPL version, and I've seen a
 Al> Synchronet port by eChicken... But was thinking, wouldn't it be cool to
 Al> have one that was BBS-independent, and just ran as a door program? E.g.
 Al> native Linux, Windows, Pi, etc. Any BBS system could use it, then.
 Al> 
 Al> Any pointers that developers in this community can give me, would be
 Al> greatly appreciated :)

I am no developer, but it seems like some other folks are also working on MRC;

Stackfault has said that he's thinking about an update to add functionality, kind of an MRC 2.0 where he fixes some things and gives it a little more ability.

aNACHRONIST is well on his way to porting MRC to the cNet Amiga BBS Software; he reports that it should be up and running on aBSINTHE sometime next week.

MeaTLoTioN mentioned in passing that he might wanna add some functions to his Johnny5 BOT...

even newcomers, like NUKE of Westwood, were trying to fart around and make the ENiGMA.5 version of MRC work a little better with /commands.

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My point is, remember that theres community here. Maybe reaching out to one or more of these rockstars would save you a bunch of time and/or keep you away from hitting deadends or issues that they may have just experienced or went thru??

While MRC is rock-solid on the Mystic BBS Platform, you really feel the differences when going to almost any other platform. I invite any doors that will allow more sysOps to run and use MRC... we're right at 100 BBSes connected to MRC - and I think that its STILL in infancy and can go higher. There are entire softwares with no MRC solution... I think your idea of a door-based MRC client is a good one, that would service MANY of the 'other' BBS softwares. The WWIV guys would dig it, amongst others.



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