Usurper fans: Tell me where you play it. I play it on Black Flag, but have been considering adding another to my daily agenda. You know, life is good when you've got nothing better to worry about than where to play Usurper! :)

Usurper fans: Tell me where you play it. I play it on Black Flag, but have been considering adding another to my daily agenda. You know, life is good when you've got nothing better to worry about than where to play Usurper! :)

Well, we do have Usurper as part of COA, but I'm not sure how active it is. (I don't play it, myself.) They may have it over on BBSLink as well, might be busier there.

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Re: Usurper
By: echicken to metalhead on Tue Oct 06 2015 10:34 pm

Usurper fans: Tell me where you play it. I play it on Black Flag, but
have been considering adding another to my daily agenda. You know,
life is good when you've got nothing better to worry about than where
to play Usurper! :)

Well, we do have Usurper as part of COA, but I'm not sure how active it is. (I don't play it, myself.) They may have it over on BBSLink as well, might be busier there.

BBSLink has DoorMUD and Operation Overkill II, but no Usurper ;-). And while I belong to both CoA and BBSLink, I feel CoA has big leg up with it's own message base and networked chat.

ec, if I haven't thanked you lately for all the work you do on CoA and the various other pieces of software you put out, let me say it now. Thanks man, you truly rock.

~KenDB3

ec, if I haven't thanked you lately for all the work you do on CoA and the various other pieces of software you put out, let me say it now. Thanks man, you truly rock.

Hey - thanks!

The vast majority of Synchronet-related things I've created wouldn't have happened without the efforts of mcmlxxix. Among many other things, he's responsible for frame.js and the JSON database service - both of which I use regularly. (And he's written a lot of great games of his own.) He's put at least as much effort into COA as I have, as well.

As much as I make things for my own enjoyment, it's always great to see other sysops setting them up and other people using them. So, thanks to you and everyone else for taking an interest and participating.

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Re: Usurper
By: echicken to KenDB3 on Sun Oct 11 2015 02:02 pm

ec, if I haven't thanked you lately for all the work you do on CoA and
the various other pieces of software you put out, let me say it now.
Thanks man, you truly rock.

Hey - thanks!

The vast majority of Synchronet-related things I've created wouldn't have happened without the efforts of mcmlxxix. Among many other things, he's responsible for frame.js and the JSON database service - both of which I use regularly. (And he's written a lot of great games of his own.) He's put at least as much effort into COA as I have, as well.

ec, you are spot on, I own mcmlxxix a big thanks too!

mcmlxxix, you definitely do some amazing work. I love your games and I really appreciate the hard work you put into SBBS. Also, you are a fellow New Englander, which counts double ;-) Lastly, I always liked your screen name because I was born in '79, lol.

As much as I make things for my own enjoyment, it's always great to see other sysops setting them up and other people using them. So, thanks to you and everyone else for taking an interest and participating.

Thanks again to both you gents. I really have learned a lot just running the BBS for fun. ec, one last thing, I love the new Bootstrap web interface, mainly because I always kept wondering if there was a way to get Synchronet to act like a blog engine. The bulletins as a feed on the main page are pretty awesome, and make a whole lotta sense.

~KenDB3

Thanks again to both you gents. I really have learned a lot just running the BBS for fun. ec, one last thing, I love the new Bootstrap web interface, mainly because I always kept wondering if there was a way to get Synchronet to act like a blog engine. The bulletins as a feed on the main page are pretty awesome, and make a whole lotta sense.

The new web interface is nearly "finished" but needs a bit of tidying up. I will add it to the Synchronet CVS in the near-ish future, but for the time being it is available here:

https://github.com/echicken/synchronet-web-v4

The bulletin feed is, unfortunately, not included, but I can make it available if it's wanted. It's very simple, and just pulls messages out of the message base that my "Bullshit" bulletin lister users.

Re: blog engine, it's something that I've thought about and plan on doing some work on at some point. I might again use a message base for storage, and allow for comments in the form of replies to the original message. Synchronet could then just handle permissions, user registration, etc. for you. I would just need to think about ways to allow for "rich" content in postings, because I suspect people would want to be able to include pictures, etc. in their blog posts. (The answer might just be "use HTML".)

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Re: Thanks! (was: Usurper)
By: echicken to KenDB3 on Mon Oct 12 2015 10:44 pm

The bulletin feed is, unfortunately, not included, but I can make it available if it's wanted. It's very simple, and just pulls messages out of the message base that my "Bullshit" bulletin lister users.

I think that by itself is pretty awesome as a form of dynamic "front page" content to the BBS. Especially opposed to a static html file.

Re: blog engine, it's something that I've thought about and plan on doing some work on at some point. I might again use a message base for storage, and allow for comments in the form of replies to the original message. Synchronet could then just handle permissions, user registration, etc. for you. I would just need to think about ways to allow for "rich" content in postings, because I suspect people would want to be able to include pictures, etc. in their blog posts. (The answer might just be "use HTML".)

HTML would make sense. Could another possibility be something like the mark up language used in something like phpBB boards? Not that I can imagine how that would work on the Terminal side of things... maybe a custom reader for that section of the text BBS. Which sounds like more work... that I couldn't really do if I tried... lol. But just tossing ideas out ;-)

HTML would make sense. Could another possibility be something like the mark up language used in something like phpBB boards? Not that I can imagine how that would work on the Terminal side of things... maybe a custom reader for that section of the text BBS. Which sounds like more work... that I couldn't really do if I tried... lol. But just tossing ideas out ;-)

Some sort of 'bbcode' or markdown is what I was initially thinking. HTML might just be easier to implement. A custom reader for the BBS would be necessary in order to strip this stuff out, and probably to enforce certain things to keep the message threads intact.

Things get tricky when you start looking at including images, etc. in articles. The sysop would either have to go out of their way to put the images somewhere on their webserver, then use an <img> tag or whatever in their article pointing at that location, or it could be done via file attachments to the message (and then some sort of bbcode like [img:filename.jpg] that points at a particular attached file.)

Anyway, it's something that I'll probably get to eventually. Just need to wait for some day when I feel interested enough to work on it. (I'm getting there.)

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Re: Thanks! (was: Usurper)
By: KenDB3 to mcmlxxix on Mon Oct 12 2015 22:07:15

mcmlxxix, you definitely do some amazing work. I love your games and I reall appreciate the hard work you put into SBBS. Also, you are a fellow New Englander, which counts double ;-) Lastly, I always liked your screen name because I was born in '79, lol.

I'm just glad that my efforts were not in vain that at least one other person uses the stuff I've written. I appreciate your appreciation.

I've been relatively absent from dovenet and most synchronet development for most of this year, but I will be making more of an effort to stay involved.. so as not to make echicken have to deal with all of my bugs.