Smooth wrote to All <=-
I hope all of you are staying safe during this pandemic. It's sad to
see however that PiNet is a ghost town just like how it is outside my house. Everyone should be chatting on their BBSes more. :D
Smooth wrote to All <=-
I hope all of you are staying safe during this pandemic. It's sad to
see however that PiNet is a ghost town just like how it is outside my
house. Everyone should be chatting on their BBSes more. :D
I would be but at this point I still have to WFH. Gives me a little
more time to chat since the commute is pretty short. :)
... He does the work of 3 Men...Moe, Larry & Curly
Maybe a few users will wander back into BBS land and stick around once
all of this is over.
I have heard that people are wandering back to HAM radio, so maybe they will!
Captain Obvious wrote to Blue White <=-
On 29 Mar 2020, Blue White said the following...
Starting to see a couple more calls daily. Folks are bored and the Internet basically sucks.
Captain Obvious wrote to Blue White <=-
On 29 Mar 2020, Blue White said the following...
Starting to see a couple more calls daily. Folks are bored and the
Internet basically sucks.
I have noticed that also. Had one complain that the interface on my "Nineties" board is "too old," but a few others have called more than once, tried a few doors, etc.
... So easy, a child could do it. Child sold separately.
Ray Sbaitso wrote to Blue White <=-
2 points for the BBS name. Possum Lodge! I haven't seen Red Green in forever.
When I stop onto any of the BBSes that have any kind of networked chats I've dropped in to check out the activity level and I'm seeing a few people around or a few more people around lately.
I love the comment about the layout being dated. It amazes me how
people can do nothing but complain. I enjoy time on the BBSes and
great appreciate the effort of those who continue to run them, run the network forums, update the software, etc.
How does running a BBS on a Pi vary from a "traditional" computer?
Jonathan Hodges wrote to Blue White <=-
I tried running my C-Net BBS on my RPi 3B+ with FS-UAE installed on a Linux Distro, but it took up too much memory and refused to run. Maybe with the newer
RPi 4 with 4MB of memory?
Personally, I'm tired of faceboob's authoritarian control over
everything and finding Free Speech still reigns supreme in the BBS
world. I'd kill my account but then I lose the free advertising I get
for my BBS there. I recently had a user from Germany telnet in. He was asking about getting Qwk packets. I haven't
set up Qwk on a BBS in over 20 years!
Jonathan Hodges wrote to Blue White <=-
I'm wondering if I can run my BBS with the RPi running on Amibian. Something to
research. I have Retropie on it currently, but it is loaded with games and not
a lot of space left over on the memory card.
Yeah, sure it's nice to contact friends from the past and family
members on facebook. If we could post photos on a BBS in real-time I'm sure more people would be willing to try it out as a viable means of communication. Until then we gotta use both, eh?
I am lucky. Our local PBS network, Kentucky Educational Television,
has kept him on once-a-week for at least 15 years now. They sometimes
go back in time far enough to pick up a season I have not seen yet. :)
I decided to name it after the show after taking a trip to Canada back
in 2017.
I have noticed a few more new people, and a lot more posts from folks
that were not as active before. At least that is one good thing to
come of all this crazy stuff.
I get many more comments about how they like that a BBS with a retro
look is still online. I am a novice programmer when it comes to PCs (I have 20+ years experience as a mainframe COBOL developer), so I am very thankful for folks like apam, Digital Man, and so many others who
continue to develop BBS software, doors, etc., so that we can keep enjoying the hobby.
Not too much. The Pi I have is old enough (a 2B or 2+, cannot remember which), that the x server was so slow I eventually uninstalled it. So,
it is all command line driven. Also, it has been running headless for about 6 months now... I ssh into it from another machine. Because of
the architecture, you have to be willing to compile some things
yourself as binaries are a little more difficult to come by. I have learned a few things. I have not tried it, but have heard that running DOS doors is much more of a challenge.
Other than that it really is not too much different.
I am also tired of it, but it is the one place I can keep up with my nieces, my high school/college friends, and some of the retirees from work.
Ray Sbaitso wrote to Blue White <=-
My local PBS station never carried it, but I happened to be close
enough to the
Canadian border at the time to receive 3 Canadian channels over the
air and on
cable so I was able to catch them on there. In my mind the episodes
were split into two parts, snowy (aka over the air) and clear (aka on cable). It's funny that years later that's still how I remember it.
When I got Netflix years ago I got a bunch on DVD to watch and it was really strange to see the snowy episodes clearly!
It's easy to just see all the problems on a lot of the web forums and forget there were (and still are) places that aren't like that. Not to say that all was always good and kind in BBS land of course. ;)
The amount of continuing development is amazing on some of the
platforms. I'm on an Amiga BBS package now that I was never on when
BBSes were new and it's almost like I was always on this software. I
just took to it from the first time I used it. There really is no
active development on it, which is a shame,
but the base software keeps moving along and doesn't know or care
about what it can or can't do compared to other BBSes.
It sounds interesting and I've always wanted to run my own BBS, but
I've been fortunate enough to find a few to frequent that provide everything I need. Some systems have next to no active users beyond the Sysop and I hate to see that. BBSes need users too and I enjoy
visiting the different digital neighborhoods.
What software do you run?
Ray Sbaitso wrote to Blue White <=-
I think a lot of people are in that situation. No one offers mailing lists anymore so if you have interests and hobbies that are more niche than mainstream one of the only ways to keep up with them is via
Facebook. The groups can have a bad reputation, but there are a lot of them out there that are well run and contain a lot of information.
It's just a shame that the platform they are run on is the way it is. People don't want to have to worry about mutliple logins / passwords,
etc anymore. I know someone who can't stand
the though of having to set up another login for another site. He
wants everything under one site, yet hates and won't use Facebook. It confuses the heck outta me! :)
On 04-10-20 12:54, Ray Sbaitso wrote to Blue White <=-
the though of having to set up another login for another site. He
wants everything under one site, yet hates and won't use Facebook. It confuses the heck outta me! :)
On 04-11-20 10:33, Blue White wrote to Ray Sbaitso <=-
Sometimes you can still find decent hobby discussion on a BBS, although not near as much as there used to be. Seems like it can still be a
good place to talk HAM radio since a lot of BBS sysops and users are
also HAM enthusiasts. Once upon a time, I felt like I was one of the
few that was not! :)
Tony Langdon wrote to Blue White <=-
I've become a lot more active on ham radio in the last few weeks. It's
an excellent way to stay connected in these times. :)
On 04-10-20 12:54, Ray Sbaitso wrote to Blue White <=-
the though of having to set up another login for another site. He
wants everything under one site, yet hates and won't use Facebook. It
confuses the heck outta me! :)
Run your own BBS or point and get a feed for all the networks you're interested in, and you're down to one login for all BBS related stuff.
:D
... The Fifth Rule: You have taken yourself too seriously.
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On 04-11-20 10:33, Blue White wrote to Ray Sbaitso <=-
Sometimes you can still find decent hobby discussion on a BBS,
although not near as much as there used to be. Seems like it can
still be a good place to talk HAM radio since a lot of BBS sysops and
users are also HAM enthusiasts. Once upon a time, I felt like I was
one of the few that was not! :)
I've become a lot more active on ham radio in the last few weeks. It's
an excellent way to stay connected in these times. :)
... It's important that I NOT know.
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