Subj : Re: Running a BBS
To   : paulie420
From : fusion
Date : Mon Jun 19 2023 04:45 pm

On 19 Jun 2023, paulie420 said the following...
 
 pa> well-done (aBSINTHE, Frozen Floppy) then thats a big draw... for me, I
 pa> really think ppl call when a sysOp is active and present; I send new
 pa> users unique reply emails and try to gauge whether they're new [extra

yeah, if we're talking bringing back call levels like the good old days, i'd imagine if you ran a support BBS for something else, you might draw in quite a few people to check it out. since it sort of 'forces' that interaction. and then from there they poke around once their problem has been fixed.

there's a tech ex-youtuber that runs a board (or did?) that was pretty popular recently. i'd imagine in that case it's appeal was bypassing the YouTube comment section to chat with the host. (kind of like how the LTT web forum is popular) but it's one of those things like.. they don't necessarily use it because they like BBSes so there's no conversion to BBS users for all of us..

who knows.. and the concensus seems to be none of us are too worried about it, which is good.. it's a cool hobby :)

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