Subj : topics.. let's hear your ideas.
To : August Abolins
From : Nil Alexandrov
Date : Wed Apr 03 2019 07:01 pm
Hello, August!
Wednesday April 03 2019 04:12, from August Abolins -> All:
AA> There seems to be consensus (from my modest gleening and lurking in a
AA> few of the other echos) that Fidonet needs "better software" and
AA> "better ways to reach new people".
The whole world has moved from desktops and laptops towards mobile gadgets
for most of the daily tasks including reading news and all those online social
network activities. IMHO the first priority in attracting new people to the
net would be to have user friendly apps for iOS and Android plus the way to
synchronize across multiple devices. It would not be convenient to have
separate point addresses for your desktop/iPad/phone and you should be able to
seamlessly move across them, say start reading on your iPad and pick up where
you left on your phone on your commute to work, once you are at your desk it
would be nice to open up a desktop/laptop browser version of the Fidonet
reader to continue on a bigger screen. UTF-8 support which adds all those
emoji and the possibility to mix different languages in one message would be
pretty much standard thing to expect from todays app. Here and there we can
see people are trying to embed some multimedia content. There are a few
options like posting an URL in the text with or without framing, insert an
uuencode file or having a fileecho as a carrier. This would be the bare
minimum to start with to reach out for new members (or bring back -exs).
