Subj : Re: File down loads total on webv4
To : Nightfox
From : Gamgee
Date : Thu Sep 12 2024 08:08 am
-=> Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-
Ni> Re: Re: File down loads total on webv4
Ni> By: Gamgee to Nightfox on Wed Sep 11 2024 05:02 pm
Ga> Absolutely agree on that. I have just chosen to not have the web
Ga> interface as it simplifies a lot of things, and to me at least, more
Ga> accurately portrays what a BBS is. For *me*, it's not something that
Ga> should be reached via the web.
Ni> I feel like the web interface doesn't take anything away from what a
Ni> BBS is. It's there if people want to use it though. The same applies
Ni> to the news server, NNTP/POP server, etc.. I think those servers are
Ni> pretty cool, as a way of extending the capabilities of the BBS, without
Ni> taking anything away from what the BBS is.
I think the various servers are very cool also, but I don't see them as
options that I would want to include in my BBS. I'm
old-skool/traditional, perhaps overly so.
Ni> We also have other modern stuff these days, such as door games that can
Ni> connect to a remote BBS (or other site) to store information, which
Ni> enables things like a shared one-liner wall that can be accessed from
Ni> multiple BBSes, game scores that could be stored in one place and
Ni> accessed from multiple BBSes, etc. Synchronet also has the capability
Ni> to send messages to users on other Synchronet BBSes - I think that's
Ni> cool, though I haven't used it a whole lot.
Again... I have no argument with these things, I just choose to not
include them. As you said earlier in the thread - to each his own. ;-)
... If it weren't for Edison we'd be using computers by candlelight
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