organonApr 8, 2017

I am reminded of the birth of the MUD concept when everybody thought it would be nifty to set up their own server. If memory serves, the rush settled down to a smallish set of devoted operators in short order to the benefit of all.

I never really MUDed, just thought the trend interesting. The desire I had yesterday to fire up my own instance which vanished by the time I woke prompted me to think on this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD

Show threadlertsenemApr 8, 2017
@organon Well there's a key difference here: you can communicate from one instance to another. So, apart from the required investment, I see no such drawbacks in running your own instance.
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@lertsenem I see no drawbacks either. I expect there will be many "servers that have three native users" that won't last long but would not discourage anybody from giving it a try if they wish.

You are correct, the distributed and federated nature of the protocol obviate the short-lived server problem.

Apr 8, 2017 at 1:25pmWeb
Show threadlertsenemApr 8, 2017
@organon So... when are you instancing then? :]