I have been off of work for a few weeks dealing with an illness that
has plagued me most of my life.

Having all this free-ish time has got me thinking about improving my
two systems, The Diskshop and Hysteria (as well as getting Synchronet
setup on a RPi 4) and improving SciNet and bbsing in general.

There is no doubt that the hobby is dying but thanks to people like
Digital Man, g00r00 and Avon for his great Mystic YouTube videos we
have people coming back to the hobby.

What else can we do to promote what I like to refer to as Web 0.2, the bbs.

SciNet is a mere skeleton of what it once was, traffic is low and that
is to be expected. What can we do to improve it?

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frank // netsurge
disksh0p!bbs % bbs.diskshop.ca % mystic goodness
SciNet ftn hq % https://diskshop.ca/scinet

.
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SciNet is a mere skeleton of what it once was, traffic is low and that
is to be expected. What can we do to improve it?

Let's write a BBS door game engine and host it on github and encourage people to make their own games, unique to their own bbses, and perhaps host tournaments?

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/02 (Linux/64)
* Origin: monterey bbs (77:1/128)

Let's write a BBS door game engine and host it on github and encourage people to make their own games, unique to their own bbses, and perhaps host tournaments?

Something written in a language that would be OS agnostic? There is ODoors
and the stuff DM and the gang is doing with JS.

Although I like the idea, there seems to be very few people left in the scene who actually code. Most of us, when we did code, did so in Pascal which is
fine and dandy for BBS doors, it isn't a language that most strive to learn.

|15frank |08// |15netsurge
|07disksh0p|08!|07bbs |08% |07bbs.diskshop.ca |08% |07mystic goodness |11SciNet |03ftn hq |08% |07https://scinet-ftn.org

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* Origin: % disksh0p!bbs % bbs.diskshop.ca % SciNet ftn hq % (77:1/100)

Re: Thought
By: Netsurge to All on Thu Oct 03 2019 02:18 pm

SciNet is a mere skeleton of what it once was, traffic is low and that
is to be expected. What can we do to improve it?

Yeah, I'd like to see it get popular too - especially to see if we can scale it above the "30,000"? nodes it once had.
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... Predestination was doomed from the start.
--- SBBSecho 3.10-Linux
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Yeah, I'd like to see it get popular too - especially to see if we can scale it above the "30,000"? nodes it once had.

I would settle for 30 active nodes.

|15frank |08// |15netsurge
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--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/02 (Linux/64)
* Origin: % disksh0p!bbs % bbs.diskshop.ca % SciNet ftn hq % (77:1/100)

Let's write a BBS door game engine and host it on github and encourag people to make their own games, unique to their own bbses, and perhap host tournaments?

Something written in a language that would be OS agnostic? There is
ODoors and the stuff DM and the gang is doing with JS.

Yeah, lol, actually, I'd been quietly planning on experimenting with this anyway. After hacking together dank domain and also playing with enigma 1/2, I'm pretty keen to try doing this with nodejs. It's platform agnostic and
won't require any dos emulation...so it sounds good to me.

Although I like the idea, there seems to be very few people left in the scene who actually code. Most of us, when we did code, did so in Pascal which is fine and dandy for BBS doors, it isn't a language that most strive to learn.

Agreed. I don't actually think many/any people would use it, but I would, so that's enough for me.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/02 (Linux/64)
* Origin: monterey bbs (77:1/128)

Yeah, lol, actually, I'd been quietly planning on experimenting with this anyway. After hacking together dank domain and also playing with enigma 1/2, I'm pretty keen to try doing this with nodejs. It's platform
agnostic and won't require any dos emulation...so it sounds good to me.

I eventually need to stop kicking and screaming when it comes to JS in
general, I have never been a big fan but and I dive more and more in to the stuff DM and the gang are doing with Synchronet, I am starting to warm up to the idea of using it.

|15frank |08// |15netsurge
|07disksh0p|08!|07bbs |08% |07bbs.diskshop.ca |08% |07mystic goodness |11SciNet |03ftn hq |08% |07https://scinet-ftn.org

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/02 (Linux/64)
* Origin: % disksh0p!bbs % bbs.diskshop.ca % SciNet ftn hq % (77:1/100)