• /social circle /groupware

    From Ogg@VERT/EOTLBBS to All on Sunday, June 07, 2020 11:06:00
    Hello MRO!

    ** On Saturday 06.06.20 - 12:49, mro wrote to Dennisk:

    Re: Re: Test and Introduction
    By: Dennisk to Nightfox on Fri Jun 05 2020 07:24 pm

    It's specifically for a social circle, an online meeting place which
    isn't mediated by a third party, isn't subject to monitoring, ads,
    surveillance. It's just for us to hang out and leave messages
    privately. It's a good way doing that.


    look into citadel. the web version of the groupware is pretty nice.

    PMFJI, Citadel looks very interesting. Is anyone here using it?

    I was exploring options to add community features to a website that I
    manage. The site has a geneology undercurrent. People would like to share photos/documents and remain in touch with each other. I've looked at Forum solutions like phpBB but I'm not excited about that one.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Ogg on Sunday, June 07, 2020 12:33:07
    Re: /social circle /groupware
    By: Ogg to All on Sun Jun 07 2020 11:06 am

    Hello MRO!

    ** On Saturday 06.06.20 - 12:49, mro wrote to Dennisk:

    Re: Re: Test and Introduction
    By: Dennisk to Nightfox on Fri Jun 05 2020 07:24 pm

    It's specifically for a social circle, an online meeting place which
    isn't mediated by a third party, isn't subject to monitoring, ads,
    surveillance. It's just for us to hang out and leave messages
    privately. It's a good way doing that.


    look into citadel. the web version of the groupware is pretty nice.

    PMFJI, Citadel looks very interesting. Is anyone here using it?

    I was exploring options to add community features to a website that I manage. The site has a geneology undercurrent. People would like to share photos/documents and remain in touch with each other. I've looked at Forum solutions like phpBB but I'm not excited about that one.


    the groupware is fucking awesome. but the bbs side of it is weird and alien to me and most of us here.

    but i always see a lot of people using it when i visit citadel bbses.
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  • From Ogg@VERT/EOTLBBS to MRO on Sunday, June 07, 2020 16:04:00
    Hello MRO!

    ** On Sunday 07.06.20 - 13:33, mro wrote to Ogg:

    look into citadel. the web version of the groupware is pretty nice.

    PMFJI, Citadel looks very interesting. Is anyone here using it?

    I was exploring options to add community features to a website that I
    manage. The site has a geneology undercurrent. People would like to share
    photos/documents and remain in touch with each other. I've looked at Forum >> solutions like phpBB but I'm not excited about that one.


    the groupware is fucking awesome. but the bbs side of it is weird and alien to me and most of us here.

    Yeah... I think the pure-text message display (designed for 300baud) would
    be too simplified.


    but i always see a lot of people using it when i visit citadel bbses.

    I tracked down a BBS that has the "bbs" (via telnet) option:

    citadel.dc540.org:23230


    ...as well as the web version:

    http://citadel.dc540.org/

    Will have to drop by and check it out.

    BTW.. do you know any Citadel groupware bbses that have any of the
    othernets?

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  • From paulie420@VERT/PAULIE42 to Ogg on Sunday, June 07, 2020 16:22:33
    Re: /social circle /groupware
    By: Ogg to All on Sun Jun 07 2020 11:06 am

    Hello MRO!

    ** On Saturday 06.06.20 - 12:49, mro wrote to Dennisk:

    Re: Re: Test and Introduction
    By: Dennisk to Nightfox on Fri Jun 05 2020 07:24 pm

    It's specifically for a social circle, an online meeting place which
    isn't mediated by a third party, isn't subject to monitoring, ads,
    surveillance. It's just for us to hang out and leave messages
    privately. It's a good way doing that.


    look into citadel. the web version of the groupware is pretty nice.

    PMFJI, Citadel looks very interesting. Is anyone here using it?

    I was exploring options to add community features to a website that I manage. The site has a geneology undercurrent. People would like to share photos/documents and remain in touch with each other. I've looked at Forum solutions like phpBB but I'm not excited about that one.

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    I always like vBulletin the best, for online forums... forgive me if yer talking about something else; but I bought a vBulletin license and have used it for various projects over the years. I think mine might be a tad outdated - but it is very powerful regardless...

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Ogg on Monday, June 08, 2020 01:03:17
    Re: Re: /social circle /groupware
    By: Ogg to MRO on Sun Jun 07 2020 04:04 pm

    Will have to drop by and check it out.

    BTW.. do you know any Citadel groupware bbses that have any of the othernets?


    nope i dont really hang with those citadel guys
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  • From Arelor@VERT/HAVENS to Ogg on Monday, June 08, 2020 08:26:09
    Re: Re: /social circle /groupware
    By: Ogg to MRO on Sun Jun 07 2020 04:04 pm

    BTW.. do you know any Citadel groupware bbses that have any of the othernets?

    For the look of it, that is not what the developer is after. They are even killing the Citaldel-to-Citadel integration they have, I think. The plan is to migrate to Mastodon so Citadel instances can be integrated with other software in the fediverse, but I think that will take more than a year for what I have heard.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to paulie420 on Monday, June 08, 2020 08:53:15
    Re: /social circle /groupware
    By: paulie420 to Ogg on Sun Jun 07 2020 04:22 pm

    I always like vBulletin the best, for online forums... forgive me if yer talking about something else; but I bought a vBulletin license and have used it for various projects over the years. I think mine might be a tad outdated - but it is very powerful regardless...

    I had a vBulletin license about 10 years ago. There was an NNTP plug-in that allowed vBulletin to sync with a newsgroup server, and for a while I used vBulletin to sync with my Synchronet BBS, and I used vBulletin as a web interface to my Synchronet message forums for a while. I eventually stopped using it though, since I think echicken's ecwebv4 is fairly good.

    Nightfox

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    þ Synchronet þ Digital Distortion: digitaldistortionbbs.com
  • From Jon Justvig@VERT/STEPPING to Nightfox on Monday, June 08, 2020 16:54:04
    Re: /social circle /groupware
    By: Nightfox to paulie420 on Mon Jun 08 2020 08:53 am

    Hi Nightfox,

    Re: /social circle /groupware
    By: paulie420 to Ogg on Sun Jun 07 2020 04:22 pm

    I had a vBulletin license about 10 years ago. There was an NNTP plug-in that allowed vBulletin to sync with a newsgroup server, and for a while I used vBulletin to sync with my Synchronet BBS, and I used vBulletin as a web interface to my Synchronet message forums for a while. I eventually stopped using it though, since I think echicken's ecwebv4 is fairly good.

    I remember working with you when we both had vBulletin running and using Synchronet to import messages. Is there a better alternative?

    -cr1mson

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Jon Justvig on Monday, June 08, 2020 21:23:20
    Re: /social circle /groupware
    By: Jon Justvig to Nightfox on Mon Jun 08 2020 04:54 pm

    I remember working with you when we both had vBulletin running and using Synchronet to import messages. Is there a better alternative?

    I know there is other forum software out there, but I haven't looked at setting them up with Synchronet. For now I like echicken's ecwebv4 well enough though, and I have that set up for my BBS web interface.

    Nightfox

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    þ Synchronet þ Digital Distortion: digitaldistortionbbs.com
  • From DaiTengu@VERT/ENSEMBLE to Jon Justvig on Tuesday, June 09, 2020 13:59:02
    Re: /social circle /groupware
    By: Jon Justvig to Nightfox on Mon Jun 08 2020 04:54 pm

    I remember working with you when we both had vBulletin running and using Synchronet to import messages. Is there a better alternative?

    Xenforo is probably "the new hotness" in the way of forum software options. It's written by the guys who originally wrote vbulletin before it was bought out and turned to rubbish.

    DaiTengu

    ... If it wasn't for C, we would be using BASI, PASAL and OBOL!

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    þ Synchronet þ War Ensemble BBS - The sport is war, total war - warensemble.com
  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to DaiTengu on Tuesday, June 09, 2020 14:13:15
    Re: /social circle /groupware
    By: DaiTengu to Jon Justvig on Tue Jun 09 2020 01:59 pm

    I remember working with you when we both had vBulletin running and
    using Synchronet to import messages. Is there a better alternative?

    Xenforo is probably "the new hotness" in the way of forum software options. It's written by the guys who originally wrote vbulletin before it was bought out and turned to rubbish.

    If there's a way to sync it with Synchronet's message bases (perhaps with an NNTP plugin or similar), that might be interesting to see.

    Nightfox

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    þ Synchronet þ Digital Distortion: digitaldistortionbbs.com
  • From Ogg@VERT/EOTLBBS to All on Tuesday, June 09, 2020 19:15:00
    Hello DaiTengu!

    ** On Tuesday 09.06.20 - 14:59, daitengu wrote to Jon Justvig:

    Xenforo is probably "the new hotness" in the way of forum software
    options. It's written by the guys who originally wrote vbulletin
    before it was bought out and turned to rubbish.

    Xenforo is cheaper by $100 too.

    But what can Xenforo do that phpBB (free) doesn't?

    Thinkpadforums with phpBB seems to be very stable, consistent and feature- rish since I purchased my first refurbished Thinkpad in 2006.

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    þ Synchronet þ End Of The Line BBS - endofthelinebbs.com
  • From DaiTengu@VERT/ENSEMBLE to Nightfox on Tuesday, June 09, 2020 17:54:56
    Re: /social circle /groupware
    By: Nightfox to DaiTengu on Tue Jun 09 2020 02:13 pm

    Xenforo is probably "the new hotness" in the way of forum software
    options. It's written by the guys who originally wrote vbulletin
    before it
    was bought out and turned to rubbish.

    If there's a way to sync it with Synchronet's message bases (perhaps with an NNTP plugin or similar), that might be interesting to see.

    I don't think there is, but they're easily moddable. It was something I always considered trying to do, but never had the time/ambition to do it.

    DaiTengu

    ... Illiterate? Write for FREE HELP!

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  • From Vk3jed@VERT/FREEWAY to Nightfox on Wednesday, June 10, 2020 20:59:00
    On 06-09-20 14:13, Nightfox wrote to DaiTengu <=-

    If there's a way to sync it with Synchronet's message bases (perhaps
    with an NNTP plugin or similar), that might be interesting to see.

    Ywah, that's probably the only way I'd host a true web forum these days. :)


    ... Micro$oft: How much money is left in your wallet today?
    --- MultiMail/Win v0.51
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Jon Justvig on Wednesday, June 10, 2020 16:32:44
    Re: /social circle /groupware
    By: Jon Justvig to Nightfox on Mon Jun 08 2020 04:54 pm

    Re: /social circle /groupware
    By: Nightfox to paulie420 on Mon Jun 08 2020 08:53 am

    Hi Nightfox,

    Re: /social circle /groupware
    By: paulie420 to Ogg on Sun Jun 07 2020 04:22 pm

    I had a vBulletin license about 10 years ago. There was an NNTP plug-in that allowed vBulletin to sync with a newsgroup server, and for a while used vBulletin to sync with my Synchronet BBS, and I used vBulletin as web interface to my Synchronet message forums for a while. I eventually stopped using it though, since I think echicken's ecwebv4 is fairly goo

    I remember working with you when we both had vBulletin running and using Synchronet to import messages. Is there a better alternative?


    there is no better alternative and there is no good way to do it
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    þ Synchronet þ ::: BBSES.info - free BBS services :::
  • From paulie420@VERT/PAULIE42 to Ogg on Thursday, June 11, 2020 21:30:05
    Re: Re: /social circle /groupware
    By: Ogg to All on Tue Jun 09 2020 07:15 pm

    Hello DaiTengu!

    ** On Tuesday 09.06.20 - 14:59, daitengu wrote to Jon Justvig:

    Xenforo is probably "the new hotness" in the way of forum software
    options. It's written by the guys who originally wrote vbulletin
    before it was bought out and turned to rubbish.

    Xenforo is cheaper by $100 too.

    But what can Xenforo do that phpBB (free) doesn't?


    So I don't know about Xenforo, but the one they had prior - vBulletin - was way better than all the free ones, I think even phpBB at the time...
    I assume that Xenforo is nicer too; just in the way of looks, feels and being a full featured solid software.

    If Xenforo is by the vBulletin guys, I'm gonna say you'd feel the difference...

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  • From Ogg@VERT/EOTLBBS to paulie420 on Saturday, June 13, 2020 18:48:00
    Hello paulie420!

    ** On Friday 12.06.20 - 00:30, paulie420 wrote to Ogg:

    Xenforo is probably "the new hotness" in the way of forum software
    options. It's written by the guys who originally wrote vbulletin
    before it was bought out and turned to rubbish.

    Xenforo is cheaper by $100 too.
    But what can Xenforo do that phpBB (free) doesn't?


    So I don't know about Xenforo, but the one they had prior - vBulletin
    - was way better than all the free ones, I think even phpBB at the
    time... I assume that Xenforo is nicer too; just in the way of looks,
    feels and being a full featured solid software.

    If Xenforo is by the vBulletin guys, I'm gonna say you'd feel the difference...

    I'd like to add a forum to complement and integrate into these:

    https://wellandhistory.ca,
    https://tales.wellandhistory.ca, and
    https://events.wellandhistory.ca

    The current WP version is so old, none of the new plugins support it. I'd have to host it in a subdomain.

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  • From paulie420@VERT/PAULIE42 to Ogg on Saturday, June 13, 2020 22:09:00
    Re: Re: /social circle /groupware
    By: Ogg to paulie420 on Sat Jun 13 2020 06:48 pm

    Hello paulie420!

    ** On Friday 12.06.20 - 00:30, paulie420 wrote to Ogg:

    Xenforo is probably "the new hotness" in the way of forum software
    options. It's written by the guys who originally wrote vbulletin
    before it was bought out and turned to rubbish.

    Xenforo is cheaper by $100 too.
    But what can Xenforo do that phpBB (free) doesn't?

    Well... it just; FEELS better. I mean totally... if yer the Linux guy, and pumped about using free software (I have no idea if phpBB is free or open, but... just making the point & all..) then I get it - and you're right, for the basic users I bet it does everything that the paid software does for you.

    But I just know from running a website about Drones when they were new, both the userbase loved a professional software much more... just more polished, and you can feel it as you use it... AND, if you are a power user theres more under the hood.

    I see your site, and I wonder if its worth it to you. I totally get going free, and you obviously know what you're doing. It looks great... I remember in vB, it handled all the frontend stuff too - like your blong articles / articles. It was called something.

    Youtube it, and let someone on there sell you good - they'll SHOW YOU. I'll just type 1000 words.

    :P

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