I tried bombadillo for a couple minutes yesterday, and it pretty much
instantly solved the biggest issue I have with vf1 : the way information
is presented.
If you're not familiar with how vf1 works, it more or less cats the
output, and then you can either :
* scroll back
* press enter and let it print the buffer 10ish lines at a time
* explicitely send said output into a pager
Bombadillo does *the sensible thing*, cats whatever you asked for and
send you straight back up to line 1.
It's a lot easier to remember the context when you have clear visual
identifiers.
It's not like I didn't know it was *an issue*, but I hadn't noticed how
big of an issue it is. So it got me thinking, because I've been having
essentially the same gripes with the interface of the bbs, in that I can
either dump the output to a pager, or try to read every post
individually, which is orders of magnitude worse because they all get
munched up together.
Other qualms being that the client itself isn't 80col safe but I lost
that battle before I was even born.
I'm thinking the experience of small imageboards is probably what I'd
try to replicate if I ever wrote my own solution for local comms.
Alphanumerical identifiers for both posts and threads, easy to jump to
and back from, less of a reason to quote people unless you're only
concerned about a specific snippet...
Eventually, for that rpi I still don't have handy, as a .onion,
blahblahblah...
