BBS Software for Raspberry Pi

On 22/02/18 17:56, Seymore4Head wrote:
On Sun, 3 Dec 2017 01:44:46 +0800, "Mr. Man-wai Chang"
wrote:

On 3/12/2017 2:30 AM, Paul Hayton wrote:
Hi there

I run a retro BBS using Mystic BBS software. The author of the software has
been actively developing it for the last 15+ years. I thought I'd post here
to let anyone interested in BBSing that there is a Raspberry Pi (ARM) version
of Mystic available from mysticbbs.com

Be sure to use the latest 1.12 Alpha, it's far more developed and robust than
the much earlier 1.11 release.

Some links that may interest you

How hard would it be for BBS software to run on telnet?

I remember years ago that I had some program that would do telnet and
there were BBSs you could connect to. Could BBS software be modified
to be accessed from the web using a browser link?

I also always wondered how hard it would be to get programs to run
from the cloud instead of being housed on a personal machine.

I wish some colleges get involved with Usenet and keep it alive.

I think BBC software for schools would also be the bomb.

BBS software these days is a PHP application running over a web
interface and is way better than a simple telnet based system - pictures
threads, fora, the lot

https://www.phpbb.com/
https://mybb.com/

Load (one of) these up on a shared/virtial server in internet land and
get chattin!



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Richard Lindzen

On Fri, 23 Feb 2018 02:36:37 +0800, "Mr. Man-wai Chang"
wrote:


Check out the following BBS in Hong Kong, accessible both by phone and web:

http://smartiesbbs.no-ip.org/


I went to have a look, but the "new user" link if broken.

On 2018-02-22, Seymore4Head wrote:
On Sun, 3 Dec 2017 01:44:46 +0800, "Mr. Man-wai Chang"
wrote:


How hard would it be for BBS software to run on telnet?

About as hard as on a serial port.

I remember years ago that I had some program that would do telnet and
there were BBSs you could connect to.


Could BBS software be modified to be accessed from the web using a
browser link?

probably, UX would suck though. no mouse.

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Seymore4Head wrote:

http://smartiesbbs.no-ip.org/

I went to have a look, but the "new user" link if broken.

Looks like this link will get you there

http://smartiesbbs.no-ip.org/cgi-bin...script=new_one

Peter

On 12/02/17 09:44, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
I supposed any Linux distributions could run it?


that's one of the beauties of linux. your distro shouldn't determine
whether or not you can run something designed for Linux [although the
presence or absence of 'devel' packages and/or correct shared lib
versions are another thing entirely]


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On Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:07:36 +1100, Peter Jetson
wrote:

Seymore4Head wrote:

http://smartiesbbs.no-ip.org/

I went to have a look, but the "new user" link if broken.

Looks like this link will get you there

http://smartiesbbs.no-ip.org/cgi-bin...script=new_one

Peter

So I tried it.
It works.
Not much of interest, but it was interesting that it worked so well.