Subj : My BBS
To : All
From : apam
Date : Wed Nov 20 2024 03:31 pm
Hello
I've been playing around a bit since getting back into BBSing (again). I've done some more work on Talisman, which Lawrence is now the maintainer of. I wanted to try something fresh, so started over (again).
I think Talisman is in a good place, and it seems to work well, and I think it's in good hands, and I will probably also still work on it (as I am also running it) - but eh, I like starting over.
This time, it's inspired by synchronet, by inspired I don't mean I plan on making a synchronet clone, but mostly using javascript for a lot of the features like synchronet does.
I'm using duktape for the JS engine, and the BBS is written in C++ (I just couldn't make rust or swift do what I wanted, I'm probably too old or dumb or something, but those languages feel like trying to program while wrapped in bubble wrap and everything you want to do is too dangerous)
The menu system is all written in JS (like synchronet's command shells). I'm using JAM (via libjam) to store the messages in.
I don't plan to write another tosser / mailer (I'm using HPT and binkd for that) and fidonet technology is less fun to me.
It's working so far, I have FTN support (but no networks set up yet) private email, doors and today i added security levels and time limits. (Yay)
Assuming it's still working (and I haven't broken sign up) you can have a look here: starlight.zapto.org:2023 (note, it's telnet only and on port 2023, port 2323 is talisman)
It's been fun so far, it's not available for download (and only runs on Linux / macOS) The source is in a private repo, and I don't know if I will open it up or not - but no one would want it at this stage anyway :)
