Subj : Re: Running a BBS
To   : paulie420
From : Commodore Clifford
Date : Mon Jun 19 2023 04:42 pm

On 19 Jun 23  05:59:43 paulie420 wrote...

PP> Pretty sure I ran 2oFB for a full year+ with ZERO callers. :P

To which Commodore Clifford replies...

I remember those days.  I could go months without a caller... or when
having hardware problems go down for months without anyone noticing.  Now
if I don't get a few callers a day and some new messages I start to check
to make sure everything is running (the old girl tends to give me the
purple screen of garbage from time to time).

For the Atari crowd, the "Retro Revolution" breathed some life into it,
but at the end of the day it's still mostly the SysOps (and not even all
of them) and a handful of "callers" who keep the activity going.  A lot
of the "activity" seems to center around topics that probably make you
wonder if some of these guys ever got out of a high school mentality...
though it can still be entertaining.  Some of our BBS's can get 10-20
messages a day and a dozen callers.

Some of it is the uniqueness of the retro, but also... sometimes having
that social media presence helps.  After all, Particles! (Commodore BBS)
has been active all this time, even during my "dead" years.  I think his
Facebook page probably had quite a bit to do with it.


--- RATSoft/FIDO v09.14.95 [JetMail 1.01]
 * Origin: STar Fleet HQ BBS - bbs.sfhqbbs.org:5983 (21:3/171)

.