Subj : Re: CTRL+A Codes for SBBS
To : Nightfox
From : DaiTengu
Date : Fri Jan 11 2019 01:12 pm
Re: Re: CTRL+A Codes for SBBS
By: Nightfox to DaiTengu on Thu Jan 10 2019 02:16 pm
Ni> I don't think it matters if people are familiar with a particular BBS
Ni> package's menu design. In fact, I think you definitely should customize
Ni> your BBS's menus, since that helps make your BBS unique. The way I see it
Ni> is that the default menus are an example of what the BBS package can do,
Ni> and it's up to you to customize it to your liking. Leaving the stock menus
Ni> means it will look just like every other stock Synchronet BBS, which is
Ni> not really interesting.. It's good to see something different and unique.
I basically re-skinned the default sync menus, It gives my board enough of a
"unique" flair to be memorable, but all the commands are still the same.
I also allow all the menusets sync has installed to be used by anyone. I'm all
for customization. Let the user decide what they want, I'm not going to force
my Bad ANSI on them.
Ni> Back in the 90s, at least with other BBS software, I always thought
Ni> customizing the menus was necessary anyway. Other BBS packages I used
Ni> didn't have an internal configured list of doors like Synchronet does, so
Ni> it was necessary to customize your menus to add commands to run the
Ni> various doors you wanted to set up for your BBS. So it was always natural
Ni> to me to customize the menus, and not use the stock menus.
Oh, yeah. I've run loads of different BBS software. Proboard, PCBoard,
Oblivion/2, Vision-X, RA, Searchlight, MajorBBS/worldgroup, even Excalibur
(and a bunch of others I set up and played with). I miss messing with all of
them, but I love all the features Synchronet has. That's why the last time I
set this back up (a few years ago), I briefly considered Mystic, along with
another not-quite-finished BBS software written in nodejs called ENiGMA1/2, but
I came right back to Synchronet because it has everything I wanted, and if I
ever got bit by the bug, I could customize it (which I started doing over the
last month).
I always edited my menus, but they were always pretty basic. Occasionally I
could get a good looking design from an ANSI pack and edit it from there, but
that still wasn't "unique".
Ni> There is a lightbar shell included with Synchronet - See lbshell.js (and
Ni> its wrapper, lbshell.src, which is a Baja script that just runs the .js
Ni> shell).
Yeah, I've used it. Deuce did a great job with it, but it's not my cup of
tea. I want to say echicken's board has something closer to what I'd like, with
a menu selection on the left, which brings up sub-menus on the right.
Someday.. maybe. I probably have the knowledge to do it now, or can figure it
out by looking at other people's work, but I'm not sure I quite have the
ambition yet.
DaiTengu
... I photocopied a mirror. Now I have an extra photocopy machine.
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