Huge updates have been pushed to the #enigmabbs #activitypub / #fediverse code!

Now fully functional interop with AP/Fediverse, including social manager, search, etc.

https://github.com/NuSkooler/enigma-bbs/

@deadbeef these days, systems like #MBSEBBS, #Synchronet, #Mystic, #EnigmaBBS etc support both: telnet and ssh so that can be considered a de-facto standard.

Keep in mind that people might be connecting with old hardware, and I mean 1970s/1980s type of "old". These systems often use modern #Wifi modems to connect via TCP/IP but use their classic terminal programs from back in the day which work through telnet translation (done by the WiFi modem). So if you don't want to lock those people out, it might be wise to also offer telnet.

Also take into account that some of these sytems have even less than 40 colums per line (e.g. the VIC-20 or the ZX Spectrum). So the system should be dynamic in terms of input and output of text width (this is something I want to implement in DX-BBS).

A simple chat system (when multi-user) and a simple filebase should also be part of that sytem.

Last but no least: could you imagine adopting an abandoned BBS codebase which already has all the core features but still has a lot of potential or do you prefer to completely "roll your own" ?!

Playing around with enigma 1/2 as a #bbs today. It's now live on wilderland.ovh:9500

I'm not sure if this is actually all that useful, but it's a bbs and it's running on my vps.

Already spent way too much time trying to troubleshoot typos in the config files.

#enigmabbs

Halloween is over, pretty much everything is boxed up and ready to go to storage. After that, I should have time to do some #enigmabbs development on the #activitypub support branch, readying it to go to main!

#retro #textmode #bbs #fediverse

Short blurb on a NetMail routing issue:

https://l33t.codes/2023/08/22/ENiGMA-Log-Investigation-No-NetMail-route/

#enigmabbs #bbs #retro #netmail #jq #sqlite-utils