Subj : Social Media Subsitute
To   : Tony Langdon
From : Alan Ianson
Date : Tue Aug 04 2020 10:36 pm

On 04 Aug 2020, Tony Langdon said the following...
 
 TL> Definitely needed.  Well, offline mail is an option, especially for
 TL> boards that support QWK over FTP.

Yep, QWK is well supported and has been up and running for about the same
amount of time as FTN networks. It has a dependency on a BBS though. I don't
think that's a bad thing myself but folks today are not (in any numbers at
all) going to sign up at a BBS to join the conversations that are going on.

In the 80's and most of the 90's if you wanted to get online you got on a BBS
but that's not the case anymore. BBSs are among my favorite things but they
don't have the place in the world that they once did.

I think the idea of apps for a tablet or phone, or other device is interesting
but it's not easy. We'd need a way to serve those apps also so we'd have to
design, implement and maintain that on top of what we are already doing. We
would need to experiment with all that to find what can work.

I'm not a programmer but I wonder.. since BBSs already have "the stuff" if
such a service could be done and if it is desirable.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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