• Poll: Best BBS from 2022 at facebook

    From MRO@1:103/705 to Xerxes on Tue Apr 19 22:59:22 2022
    Re: Poll: Best BBS from 2022 at facebook
    By: Xerxes to Ragnarok on Tue Apr 19 2022 02:41 pm

    Re: Poll: Best BBS from 2022 at facebook
    By: Ragnarok to DOVE-Net.Synchronet_Discussion on Mon Apr 18 2022 08:47 pm

    I love BBS wars!

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/414733985361645

    jejeje!

    Mystic is alright, but I don't know why they are ahead on this. The real poll is how many people run the software.

    Twice as many people run Synchronet, and it has way more features. I think maybe the default menus on Mystic are prettier and certain things are a little easier to setup, but Synchronet is way more powerful.



    there's a lot of mystic bbses. i'm not sure we could get a good figure of who runs what. not many people participate in polls or want to.

    i dont know why people run mystic. i guess they are told there's no other option and the author says it is a spiritual sucessor to rg and telegard. i loved rg and telegard and i don't find it as such.

    i think people should check out elebbs or just run an older dos bbs software, but if they like running it, that's good.

    i haven't heard people say they like running mystic, though. i just think they stick with it because it's not like synchronet because they find it scarey due to the .js.
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  • From Nightfox@1:103/705 to MRO on Tue Apr 19 22:02:16 2022
    Re: Poll: Best BBS from 2022 at facebook
    By: MRO to Xerxes on Tue Apr 19 2022 10:59 pm

    i think people should check out elebbs or just run an older dos bbs software, but if they like running it, that's good.

    Since I used RA in the 90s, I was setting up a BBS with EleBBS before I started using Synchronet. But EleBBS wasn't exiting with an errorlevel to run events like I was expecting (that's how RA did its events). I thought it was a bug and decided to look for other BBS software and found Synchronet. I don't know if EleBBS is still actively maintained, but I haven't heard much about it, and I haven't heard of anyone on the message networks posting from a BBS running EleBBS.

    Nightfox

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  • From MRO@1:103/705 to Nightfox on Wed Apr 20 00:36:04 2022
    Re: Poll: Best BBS from 2022 at facebook
    By: Nightfox to MRO on Tue Apr 19 2022 10:02 pm

    Re: Poll: Best BBS from 2022 at facebook
    By: MRO to Xerxes on Tue Apr 19 2022 10:59 pm

    i think people should check out elebbs or just run an older dos bbs software, but if they like running it, that's good.

    Since I used RA in the 90s, I was setting up a BBS with EleBBS before I started using Synchronet. But EleBBS wasn't exiting with an errorlevel to run events like I was expecting (that's how RA did its events). I thought it was a bug and decided to look for other BBS software and found

    you could have talked to the developer about it.

    Synchronet. I don't know if EleBBS is still actively maintained, but I haven't heard much about it, and I haven't heard of anyone on the message networks posting from a BBS running EleBBS.

    pcmike hosts the site. no it's not being 'updated' every year but it works just fine. i have a person who i host for that uses elebbs.

    i'm not a big caller of bbses but there's a few bbses running elebbs that i know of.
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  • From MRO@1:103/705 to Xerxes on Wed Apr 20 01:54:56 2022
    Re: Re: Poll: Best BBS from 2022 at facebook
    By: Xerxes to dragon on Tue Apr 19 2022 11:58 pm

    Re: Re: Poll: Best BBS from 2022 at facebook
    By: dragon to Xerxes on Tue Apr 19 2022 09:24 pm

    My database shows 309 Synchronets and 219 Mystics.

    You probably have the most accurate database I've ever seen.

    So, I'm wrong it's not double but still close to 50% more...that's not insignificant.
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    whenever i see a new bbs or one i havent heard of, it's a mystic one.
    if there ARE more more synchronet bbses, these might be a holdout from the old days when someone would just install a synchronet bbs and let it rot. back then there was a huge amount of synchronet systems.
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  • From MRO@1:103/705 to Xerxes on Wed Apr 20 01:57:40 2022
    Re: Poll: Best BBS from 2022 at facebook
    By: Xerxes to MRO on Wed Apr 20 2022 12:19 am


    I never ran Telegard but as far as Renegade I don't think it's the "spiritual successor" to rg either.

    There are "bridge" programs out there that will give you telnet and stuff to the DOS BBS software. There are people who do it and there are times I think it's tempting, but you'd still lose a ton of stuff compared to Synchronet.


    well older bbs softwares had the same kind of stuff for the users, and some of them had scripting languages.

    i use synchronet to launch the older bbses. the elebbs i host for a friend has the telnet server on another port and then it launches via synchronet.

    you can also use net2bbs.

    it all depends on what you want.
    like would i, myself lose a lot switching? probably not. most of my mods could be converted to another scripting language and i dont use synchronet's other servers other than bbs and email.
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  • From The Millionaire@1:103/705 to MRO on Fri Apr 22 13:10:22 2022

    Re: Re: Poll: Best BBS from 2022 at facebook
    By: Xerxes to MRO on Wed Apr 20 2022 12:22 pm

    also bbses come and go. like bbses will disappear right after being on a list. and there's bbses that arent on any lists.

    so who really knows.
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    True. Well said there. :-)

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  • From dragon@1:103/705 to MRO on Sun Apr 24 12:27:40 2022
    Subject: Re: Poll: Best BBS from 2022 at facebook
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    On 4/20/2022 2:54 AM, MRO wrote:
    Re: Re: Poll: Best BBS from 2022 at facebook
    By: Xerxes to dragon on Tue Apr 19 2022 11:58 pm

    > Re: Re: Poll: Best BBS from 2022 at facebook
    > By: dragon to Xerxes on Tue Apr 19 2022 09:24 pm
    >
    > dr> My database shows 309 Synchronets and 219 Mystics.
    >
    > You probably have the most accurate database I've ever seen.
    >
    > So, I'm wrong it's not double but still close to 50% more...that's not
    > insignificant.
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    > Sysop of Desert Rats Sanctuary --- https://bbs.kn6q.org


    whenever i see a new bbs or one i havent heard of, it's a mystic one.
    if there ARE more more synchronet bbses, these might be a holdout from the old days when someone would just install a synchronet bbs and let it rot. back then there was a huge amount of synchronet systems.
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    This might be a good place to mention that I do elect not to list a
    handful of Mystic boards I find because the operator has not named the
    board, changed the sysop name, or done anything else to identify their site.

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