Subj : pros and cons
To : Morningstarr
From : Digital Man
Date : Fri Dec 19 2025 03:05 pm
Re: pros and cons
By: Morningstarr to All on Fri Dec 19 2025 02:12 pm
> Comparing Synchronet to Major BBS or Wildcat, other than price, how do they
> compare? What are sone pros and cons to the other two comoared to Synchronet
> and hiw do they differ?
MajorBBS is a "multi-user" BBS where as Wildcat and Synchronet are "multi-node" BBSes. This used to be a bigger distinction before modern OSes with multi-threading, but main thing is that MajorBBS can't (as far as I know) directly run DOS door games. MajorBBS does have a lot of high quality purpose-built add-ons/mods/games, but they're proprietary to MajorBBS and won't run on any other platform/BBS.
Synchronet is open source, Wildcat is not and I don't think/know if MajorBBS has actually gone open source yet or not. Anyone can find and fix bugs in Synchronet or add features. Only Hector Santos can do that for Wildcat.
Synchronet has a standard integrated scripting language (ECMAScript, aka JavaScript) where as Wildcat's scripting language is a proprietary dialect of BASIC.
Synchronet is updated very frequently and development (aka alpha, beta) versions/builds are available to everyone immediately. Not so with Wildcat.
I don't think either Wildcat or MajorBBS support all the different TCP/IP application and transport/security protocols that Synchronet does. So, pretty sure Synchronet leads with its Internet-integration.
Most other differences are going to be subjective: what do *you* and your users like using better?
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