• I'm using right now: (rslight)

    From Ogg@VERT/EOTLBBS to All on Thursday, June 25, 2020 20:57:00
    Hello Retro!

    ** On Monday 22.06.20 - 05:19, retro.guy wrote to Vk3jed:

    The software I'm using right now, Rocksolid Light (rslight), can talk nntp
    to other servers, other installs of rslight, or just standalone. This site I'm using right now is connected to Synchronet as the backend.

    [snip]

    We currently run 5 sites all with the same forums (rocksolid.* hierarchy) in three networks (clearnet, i2p and tor), running 2 rslight sites, one FudForum, one modified vichan and one custom site written as bash scripts. I'm using domain names I already owned, so they say 'bbs' in them. That's from when I was running the Synchronet web interface, which is where this
    all started. www.rocksolidbbs.com

    The presentation is very nice. It looks very doable on my meager 3" x 3" Blackberry display.

    The response is very quick.

    Including the thread tree at the top is very good! But, if access to that could be adapted into a swipe or a menu pull, that would be cool on a smartphone. Or.. collapse the thread-tree, and have it accessible in full view as a drop-down.

    Maybe it's only available after a login, but a visual indicator of what messages have been read and which ones are unread would be good.

    Also.. a S)earch feature thorugh the messages would be good too.

    The default colour scheme is very classy and easy on the eyes.



    ../|ug

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  • From Retro Guy@VERT/RETROBBS to Ogg on Friday, June 26, 2020 09:12:45
    Re: I'm using right now: (rslight)
    By: Ogg to All on Thu Jun 25 2020 08:57 pm

    Hello Retro!

    ** On Monday 22.06.20 - 05:19, retro.guy wrote to Vk3jed:

    We currently run 5 sites all with the same forums (rocksolid.*
    hierarchy) in three networks (clearnet, i2p and tor), running 2
    rslight sites, one FudForum, one modified vichan and one custom site
    written as bash scripts. I'm using domain names I already owned, so
    they say 'bbs' in them. That's from when I was running the Synchronet
    web interface, which is where this all started. www.rocksolidbbs.com

    The presentation is very nice. It looks very doable on my meager 3" x 3" Blackberry display.

    Glad to hear that!

    Including the thread tree at the top is very good! But, if access to that could be adapted into a swipe or a menu pull, that would be cool on a smartphone. Or.. collapse the thread-tree, and have it accessible in full view as a drop-down.

    The tree "should" be above where you land on the page, meaning you should need to scroll up to see it. Each page has an anchor to try to accomplish that. I'm guessing that's not happening on your Blackberry, not sure why.

    Maybe it's only available after a login, but a visual indicator of what messages have been read and which ones are unread would be good.

    rslight supports Synchronet, but it's nowhere near as designed for it as, for example, echicken's webv4. Currently, rslight does not track what messages you have read, which is a great feature on a bbs. Sometime in the future maybe, but not yet.

    I tend to read by clicking 'Overboard' for the whole area (like all DOVE-Net), or the blue icon to the left of each group to see the newest messages in that group. Either way, they are sorted newest to oldest.

    Also.. a S)earch feature thorugh the messages would be good too.

    There is a simple search feature, but it can only search Subject, From and Message-ID.

    The default colour scheme is very classy and easy on the eyes.

    Thanks! I stole that scheme from a FudForum site another rocksolid node uses.

    Retro Guy

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  • From Ogg@VERT/EOTLBBS to All on Sunday, July 05, 2020 16:39:00
    Hello Retro!

    ** On Friday 26.06.20 - 05:12, retro.guy wrote to Ogg:

    The tree "should" be above where you land on the page, meaning you
    should need to scroll up to see it. Each page has an anchor to try to accomplish that. I'm guessing that's not happening on your Blackberry,
    not sure why.

    The tree *is* above. A click on a title there takes me to the message
    below. The anchor works. But there is no way to get back to the exact/
    last position in the thread tree. However, the Safari browser "Back"
    button is a viable alternative.


    rslight supports Synchronet, but it's nowhere near as designed for it
    as, for example, echicken's webv4. Currently, rslight does not track
    what messages you have read, which is a great feature on a bbs.
    Sometime in the future maybe, but not yet.

    That would be an excellent feature.

    I've been playing a bit more with the ecwebv4.. and that's not too shabby either. I just find it hard to figure out using its >| forward and <| backward buttons. It's too easy to get lost in the thread without a thread-tree like yours.


    I tend to read by clicking 'Overboard' for the whole area (like all DOVE-Net), or the blue icon to the left of each group to see the
    newest messages in that group. Either way, they are sorted newest to oldest.

    That is very good.


    Also.. a S)earch feature thorugh the messages would be good too.

    There is a simple search feature, but it can only search Subject, From
    and Message-ID.

    I barely noticed the search. By Subject/From works very well! Thank you.


    The default colour scheme is very classy and easy on the eyes.

    Thanks! I stole that scheme from a FudForum site another rocksolid node
    uses.

    By the way.. the color seems to have disappeared when I visit with my Blackberry. Or, I'd swear I saw it the first time I dropped by. :(

    In any case, the BB 3x3 screen is too small for the experience on a
    regular basis.

    BTW.. I'm the anon user who posted "Hmmmm" in one of the .i2p forums a
    few minutes ago. I didn't think the system would allow it. I was using
    my BB at the time and didn't want to spend typing anything important.

    Keep up the good work.

    ../|ug

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  • From Retro Guy@VERT/RETROBBS to Ogg on Monday, July 06, 2020 06:23:13
    Re: Re: I'm using right now: (rslight)
    By: Ogg to All on Sun Jul 05 2020 04:39 pm

    Hello Retro!

    The tree *is* above. A click on a title there takes me to the message below. The anchor works. But there is no way to get back to the exact/ last position in the thread tree. However, the Safari browser "Back" button is a viable alternative.

    Oh, I see what you mean. That would take some work, but I probably don't
    have the time for a while to address that. It's not something I ever really thought of :)

    Also.. a S)earch feature thorugh the messages would be good too.

    There is a simple search feature, but it can only search Subject,
    From and Message-ID.

    I barely noticed the search. By Subject/From works very well! Thank you.

    Glad it works! There is still a bug in there that can land you on a non-existent message, but I'm working on that right now. Generally, it
    works well.

    By the way.. the color seems to have disappeared when I visit with my Blackberry. Or, I'd swear I saw it the first time I dropped by. :(

    Is it just the colors, or is the whole css not working? I haven't made any changes to css in a few months and haven't seen a problem. I'm curious what might cause that, thanks for letting me know.

    BTW.. I'm the anon user who posted "Hmmmm" in one of the .i2p forums a few minutes ago. I didn't think the system would allow it. I was using
    my BB at the time and didn't want to spend typing anything important.

    I saw those messages. I was about to reply, "Did it work?" :)

    You can post as anonymous in the Rocksolid groups, but not Dove-NET or the Usenet groups. Each section (rocksolid, dovenet etc.) is able to be configured separately for such things. I can deal with junk in rocksolid.*, but wanted to be as careful as I could with other sections. The DOVE-Net section isn't even available to Tor users, only i2p and clearnet.

    In addition, all posts go through spamassassin before becoming a post (they get redirected to rocksolid.spam if flagged as spam). I hope to not be a source of spam, so I try to put some effort into that. Rslight supports spamassassin and nocem, which has been helpful.

    Keep up the good work.

    Thanks for the feedback!

    Retro Guy

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  • From paulie420@VERT/PAULIE42 to Retro Guy on Tuesday, July 07, 2020 00:41:07
    Re: Re: I'm using right now: (rslight)
    By: Retro Guy to Ogg on Mon Jul 06 2020 06:23 am

    You can post as anonymous in the Rocksolid groups, but not Dove-NET or the Usenet groups. Each section (rocksolid, dovenet etc.) is able to be configured separately for such things. I can deal with junk in rocksolid.*, but wanted to be as careful as I could with other sections. The DOVE-Net section isn't even available to Tor users, only i2p and clearnet.

    Keep up the good work.
    Thanks for the feedback!

    Yea, Retro Guy... I, also, wanted to write again just saying thanks for Dove-Net on rocksolid... I totally love how it looks on my iPhone, and I am stoked that in a pinch - or if I want to post something when I'm @ work - that theres a great option now.

    Sure I can telnet into my board but... that sucks worse than covid lollipops while hustling and bustling.

    Appreciate Dove-Net AND your other message areas alike. Likelikelike.

    |08Paulie|15420
    |15M|08@|15STERM|07i|15ND
    |14AmericanPiBBS|04.com|07

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  • From Retro Guy@VERT/RETROBBS to paulie420 on Tuesday, July 07, 2020 22:37:33
    paulie420 wrote:

    Yea, Retro Guy... I, also, wanted to write again just saying thanks for Dove-Net on rocksolid... I totally love how it looks on my iPhone, and I am stoked that in a pinch - or if I want to post something when I'm @ work - that theres a great option now.

    Thanks. It helps to know that it's not just my phone (and Chrome developer tools), but that other
    users find it displays properly.

    Sure I can telnet into my board but... that sucks worse than covid lollipops while hustling and bustling.

    Exactly. I've used telnet on my phone to fix some server issue a few times and I spend most of my
    time trying to figure out what letter I'm looking at, or fixing a typo in some long command.

    Retro Guy

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  • From Ogg@VERT/EOTLBBS to All on Tuesday, July 07, 2020 21:21:00
    Hello paulie420!

    ** On Tuesday 07.07.20 - 03:41, paulie420 wrote to Retro Guy:

    Yea, Retro Guy... I, also, wanted to write again just saying thanks for Dove-Net on rocksolid... I totally love how it looks on my iPhone..

    Do you get the same cool blue background color that shows up when using a computer's browser?





    ../|ug

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  • From paulie420@VERT/PAULIE42 to Ogg on Wednesday, July 08, 2020 13:31:37
    Re: Re: I'm using right now: (rslight)
    By: Ogg to All on Tue Jul 07 2020 09:21 pm

    Hello paulie420!

    ** On Tuesday 07.07.20 - 03:41, paulie420 wrote to Retro Guy:

    Yea, Retro Guy... I, also, wanted to write again just saying thanks
    for Dove-Net on rocksolid... I totally love how it looks on my
    iPhone..

    Do you get the same cool blue background color that shows up when using a computer's browser?

    I think so; its like a dark blue/lighter dark blue alternating background. Even that is cool, as it kinda breaks up the different message areas.

    I do have one issue with the service that might be a... thing... but its best not to post it here for everyone to read.

    pAULIE42o
    M@STERMiND
    AmericanPiBBS.com

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  • From Ogg@VERT/EOTLBBS to All on Sunday, August 16, 2020 17:44:00
    Hello Retro!

    I registered via your web presence (email verifications seemed to go ok),
    but posting fails:

    The newsserver does not accept the message:

    502 Authentication required

    Does my account need to await human intervention and approval?

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Ogg on Sunday, August 16, 2020 19:19:47
    Re: Re: I'm using right now: (rslight)
    By: Ogg to All on Sun Aug 16 2020 05:44 pm

    Hello Retro!

    I registered via your web presence (email verifications seemed to go ok), but posting fails:

    The newsserver does not accept the message:

    502 Authentication required

    Does my account need to await human intervention and approval?
    Does my account need to await human intervention and approval?

    you are addressing this to all and this should probably be a private email. we have no idea what system you are talking about.


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  • From Ogg@VERT/EOTLBBS to MRO on Sunday, August 16, 2020 21:24:00
    Hello MRO!

    ** On Sunday 16.08.20 - 20:19, mro wrote to Ogg:

    The newsserver does not accept the message:
    502 Authentication required
    Does my account need to await human intervention and approval?

    you are addressing this to all and this should probably be a private
    email. we have no idea what system you are talking about.

    Yeah.. I know. I posted that before I remembered how to find the sysop in
    one of the nodelists.

    Since Retro Guy posted a message about his system here in the past, I
    simply replied to that - or I thought I did. I mistakenly replied to Paulie420's message instead of Retro Guy's original message to me - that
    is why my message ended up posted to All. :(

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Ogg on Sunday, August 16, 2020 21:03:20
    Re: Re: I'm using right now: (rslight)
    By: Ogg to MRO on Sun Aug 16 2020 09:24 pm

    Hello MRO!

    ** On Sunday 16.08.20 - 20:19, mro wrote to Ogg:

    The newsserver does not accept the message:
    502 Authentication required
    Does my account need to await human intervention and approval?

    you are addressing this to all and this should probably be a
    private email. we have no idea what system you are talking about.

    Yeah.. I know. I posted that before I remembered how to find the sysop in one of the nodelists.

    Since Retro Guy posted a message about his system here in the past, I simply replied to that - or I thought I did. I mistakenly replied to Paulie420's message instead of Retro Guy's original message to me - that is why my message ended up posted to All. :(


    maybe you should find a different way of posting since you are having these problems.
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  • From Ogg@VERT/EOTLBBS to MRO on Sunday, August 16, 2020 22:41:00
    Hello MRO!

    ** On Sunday 16.08.20 - 22:03, mro wrote to Ogg:

    maybe you should find a different way of posting since you are having these problems. -+-

    HAHAHA. I now understand when a message is posted to All and when it gets posted to the sender. The system works consistently. There is no
    problem. ;)

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Ogg on Monday, August 17, 2020 13:22:47
    Re: Re: I'm using right now: (rslight)
    By: Ogg to MRO on Sun Aug 16 2020 10:41 pm

    Hello MRO!

    ** On Sunday 16.08.20 - 22:03, mro wrote to Ogg:

    maybe you should find a different way of posting since you are having
    these problems. -+-

    HAHAHA. I now understand when a message is posted to All and when it gets posted to the sender. The system works consistently. There is no
    problem. ;)

    so it's not openxp, it's operator error?
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