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Title: Forums simplified.
Post by: FTL_Ian on May 21, 2015, 06:45:56 PM

Not that anyone except Libman will really care, but I removed some extraneous forums today, simplifying it somewhat.  Don't worry, all the posts are still here, just mostly here in General.

Thanks for being here!

Title: Re: Forums simplified.
Post by: sillyperson on May 22, 2015, 08:34:28 AM

Thank *you*, Ian, for keeping this BBS alive. And for giving it the throwback name "BBS"
I'm an old-time geek, I cut my teeth programming in assembly language on an 80x24 monchrome TTY and using cassette tapes for storage.
Ain't nothin' wrong with keeping the BBS alive, keeping the archive of all these posts, and who knows, maybe this will be a safety net of sorts when Facebook turns in-your-face Evil

Title: Re: Forums simplified.
Post by: FTL_Ian on May 22, 2015, 01:23:52 PM

I've always toyed around with actually launching a telnet BBS, but it's always seemed like more trouble than it would be worth.   Really they are only good for playing door games, it would seem.  That would be cool to have, but how many users would we really be able to expect?

Title: Re: Forums simplified.
Post by: libman.org on May 22, 2015, 04:02:23 PM

Quote from: FTL_Ian on May 21, 2015, 06:45:56 PM Not that anyone except Libman will really care [...]

I cared 5 years ago.   *WAY* too much.  There should be a 12-step program for FTL-aholics like me.  :P

Quote from: FTL_Ian on May 21, 2015, 06:45:56 PM Don't worry, all the posts are still here, just mostly here in General.  [...]

Perfectly reasonable.

Quote from: sillyperson on May 22, 2015, 08:34:28 AM I'm an old-time geek, I cut my teeth programming in assembly language on an 80x24 monchrome TTY and using cassette tapes for storage.

Awesome!  I ran a dial-up "AL's SoftWare BBS" in Freehold, NJ in mid-1990s.  Tried several dozen different BBS hosting programs.  My favorite was Syncronet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronet).   Fun times!  But I've moved on.  8)

Quote from: sillyperson on May 22, 2015, 08:34:28 AM Ain't nothin' wrong with keeping the BBS alive, keeping the archive of all these posts, and who knows, maybe this will be a safety net of sorts when Facebook turns in-your-face Evil

I have some old message archives (including a pre-libricide SQL dump of this BBS) in libman.org/msg (http://libman.org/msg/) (and some old code on GitHub (https://github.com/lbmn/libman.org/tree/master/old/2011/bbs)).  I was aiming at creating a static archive of all FSP-related forums, but never went further with it: depression, homelessness, etc...

Title: Re: Forums simplified.
Post by: blackie on May 22, 2015, 07:42:45 PM

I wish I had something to say. Numbers don't lie.

(http://mainelycannabis.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/FTLbbs.png)

Title: Re: Forums simplified.
Post by: libman.org on May 24, 2015, 06:14:29 PM

Quote from: blackie on May 22, 2015, 07:42:45 PM Numbers don't lie.

97.23% of numbers you see on the Internet originated in someone's ass.

What's your source?

Title: Re: Forums simplified.
Post by: blackie on May 25, 2015, 02:11:43 PM

https://bbs.freetalklive.com/stats/

Title: Re: Forums simplified.
Post by: FTL_Ian on May 26, 2015, 12:05:41 AM

Whatever happened to Taors?

Good to see you here, BJ and Blackie.  There's no doubt this forum is dead.  Oh well.

Title: Re: Forums simplified.
Post by: Diogenes The Cynic on May 26, 2015, 06:16:15 AM

Dunno about Taors, but I've seen YixilTesiphon on fark.

Title: Re: Forums simplified.
Post by: FTL_Ian on May 26, 2015, 11:10:38 PM

+1

Title: Re: Forums simplified.
Post by: Chyndonax on May 31, 2015, 03:05:51 PM

More like forum was turned into a stinking, rotting corpse.

Title: Re: Forums simplified.
Post by: Diogenes The Cynic on May 31, 2015, 03:08:30 PM

Quote from: Chyndonax on May 31, 2015, 03:05:51 PM

More like forum was turned into a stinking, rotting corpse.

Does that make us mushrooms?

Title: Re: Forums simplified.
Post by: Chyndonax on May 31, 2015, 03:23:09 PM

Quote from: Diogenes The Cynic on May 31, 2015, 03:08:30 PM

Quote from: Chyndonax on May 31, 2015, 03:05:51 PM

More like forum was turned into a stinking, rotting corpse.

Does that make us mushrooms?

Does a bear shit in the woods and then mushrooms grow on top of it? Because if so that is you, yes.