I mentioned in a previous post [1] that it will be
neat to watch as pubnix users continue to develop
the social tools used by the pubnix community
itself.  Below is a list of some software and
features I've seen available on pubnixes and
pubnix-like systems recently.  And some are not
written yet; just concepts that would be neat if
they did exist.

Note that I am a gopher newbie and minimalist,
so although I am aware of several pubnix-user
developed gopher utilities, I don't list them
here.

I believe that several of the programs below
were written by smj on SDF, so rather than
repeating his name over and over below, I've
*'ed those items.

~ INTER-USER COMMUNICATION ~

notes* - leave notes that individual other users
        will see on login.

messages* - send direct messages to other online
        users.  somewhat redundant with standard
        'write' program.

anonymous community journal - like
        "happening"* on SDF.

chat -   lightweight alt. to IRC. e.g. schat on
        Zaibatsu, chat on colorfield.space, party
        on grex, or even com* on SDF.

bbs -    e.g. telem (solderpunk), gboard
        (tfurrows), SDF's bboard, or tilde's
        bbj (desvox).

~ NOVELTY ~

oneliner* - enter a single line of text (a witty
        saying, typically) or view a randomly
        selected line contributed by others.

tilde-train - a variation on "sl" (steam
        locomotive) that builds a train by
        adding cars that users define in
        their .choochoo files. (written by
        yours truly, which is why it is so
        poorly coded...)

novelty irc bots - Many, many, many. Some are
        useful, some are fun, some are downright
        annoying (if overused).

## This novelty section could be gigantic.  In some
ways, this is some of the most exciting elements to
pubnixes, the engineer's playground of digital toys.
I'll cut this short with elipses and make a
dedicated "pubnix novelty programs" another time...

~ GOVERNANCE ~

voting tool - solderpunk mentioned this concept on
        gboard a while back. I don't know if such a
        tool actually exists.

vouch system - allow users to voice confidence that
        a new, unprivileged user is trustworthy and
        should be given full user rights
        (blinkenshell, presumably written by
        independence.)

on-boarding quiz - Part of automated new user
        sign-up process. ensures that applicants
        have read and understood the code of
        conduct and related
        information.(Blinkenshell, presumably
        written by independence.)

invite code generator - Allow users to vouch
        for and invite others (for bigger
        systems, obviously).

~ PUBLISHING/BLOGGING ~

command line blog - I would love to see one that is
        .plan or .project based, as someone on
        circumlunar.space mentioned recently.  I
        believe tilde.town's Feels Engine can do
        this (and more, e.g. post to html), but I
        haven't used it yet.

~ INFO ~

who/last - List who is online, potentially what
        they're doing, and the last login time for
        people not currently online.  This would be
        a combined version of 'w' or 'who' and
        'last' commands.

sysinfo - pubnix users are geeks, usually. Give them
        a command that summarizes system resources,
        load, and other interesting bits.

--

This gopher post will be a work in progress for a
little while.  I'd like to think more about the
categorization and about the criteria for what is on
the list and off the list (e.g. this does not
include tools like "finger", a classic and still
useful tool for looking up info on other users).

And, this list is in no way intended to suggest that
a standard set of tools should be used across
pubnix-ville.  The opposite, in fact -- variety is
mroe interesting.  This list is just intended to
remark on how much is going on already, and to
suggest a few tools that would be nice to see built.

[1]
gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/~cmccabe/06-hexachlorophene.txt