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  • Reality Check

    From Shitty to All on Wednesday, January 22, 2025 13:58:32
    Hi! I'm not really into Synchronet that much, but I wanted to check out this BBS because good ol Poindexter has been around the BBS world for a long time and I knew it would be interesting.

    What is it about Synchronet that people like so much? This BBS looks decent and everything, but I have a difficult time getting used to the Synchronet way of doing things (particularly in message bases.)
  • From poindexter FORTRAN to Shitty on Wednesday, January 22, 2025 23:27:01
    Re: Reality Check
    By: Shitty to All on Wed Jan 22 2025 01:58 pm

    What is it about Synchronet that people like so much? This BBS looks decent and everything, but I have a difficult time getting used to the Synchronet way of doing things (particularly in message bases.)

    As a sysop, I liked the fact that I could run several servers (web, mail, news, FTP, IRC and Gopher!) on a cast-off little celeron box running Windows.

    Now, in 2025, Synchronet is almost completely self-contained - with SSH support, LetsEncrypt, a mail tosser and Fidonet mailer built-in to Synchronet.

    I've played with a full-screen message reader, but am having problems with new scan pointers - it keeps "forgetting" your last-read message. The reader should make reading messages a little more fluid than the old-school "one message at a time" style of message reading.