Has Usurper always been this difficult to get started playing? Jumped by insance women, 2 trolls and a rogue. How am I supposed to deal with that at level 1?
Having way too much fun tinkering with Synchronet and 'dialing out' to other Synchronet BBSs to see what you guys are doing with your boards. Thanks to many of you for having the 40+ SBBS mods that are going to keep
Has Usurper always been this difficult to get started playing? Jumped by insance women, 2 trolls and a rogue. How am I supposed to deal with that at level 1?
What IRC networks do you lamers hang out on? =P
Having way too much fun tinkering with Synchronet and 'dialing out' to
Same here Fang, I just started up my bbs about a week ago and my learning curve on Sychronet has gotten better. Still working on tweaking but you are more than welcome to stop by and check my bbs out at bluenote.synchro.net
"Bluenote Music Source". I am a musician so i used to be way into sequencing so I had a board that carried alot of MOD files and different utils as well for music.
Maybe we can share notes =) I'll stop by in a bit!
Fun! I used to play around with MODtrackers and Fruityloops in my lame attempts at making industrial/techno/jungle tracks...
What IRC networks do you lamers hang out on? =P
EFnet, Canternet, and some private IRC server I have with friends.
Fun! I used to play around with MODtrackers and Fruityloops in my lame attempts at making industrial/techno/jungle tracks...
It's been along time for me as well. I mainly use Logic Audio on my mac now to do all my sound recording/editing.
Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
By: Arelor to Fang-Castro on Wed Aug 19 2020 04:34 pm
What IRC networks do you lamers hang out on? =P
EFnet, Canternet, and some private IRC server I have with friends.
EFnet has always, to me, been garbage. Canternet? I had to google that... "IRC network for bronies" -- that's a pretty specific network!
[fLEE.tHE.pLANET.bBS][916.pRI.vATE]
Check this out. https://youtu.be/MCJT53GMoEg
Guy puts 'coronavirus' into his audio program and makes some heavy metal.
EFnet has always, to me, been garbage. Canternet? I had to google that... "IRC network for bronies" -- that's a pretty specific network!What IRC networks do you lamers hang out on? =PEFnet, Canternet, and some private IRC server I have with friends.
What IRC networks do you lamers hang out on? =P
EFnet, Canternet, and some private IRC server I have with friends.
EFnet has always, to me, been garbage. Canternet? I had to google that... "IRC network for bronies" -- that's a pretty specific network!
IRC used to be my main way of conversing with folks I know...EFnet, Canternet, and some private IRC server I have with friends.
Heh, my wife and I re-met on IRC but haven't been on since 2000 or so.
paulie420 wrote to Fang-Castro <=-
IRC used to be my main way of conversing with folks I know... but over
the years it finally died, IMO - or at least for my vast network of irc folk.
IRC haven't died, not even close. Sure that heavyuse time of 90's and early 2K is thing of past, but IRC wont go anywhere.
Just like some say that 'Slack killed the E-Mail ...' Or something stupid like that.
Good old tech never dies, while these new thingies seem to come and go faster than 80's comes back to fashion ...
Do people still use BBS IRC or is that dead? I used mIRC quite a lot back in its heyday.
Andeddu wrote to Hakuchi <=-
Do people still use BBS IRC or is that dead? I used mIRC quite a lot
back in its heyday.
Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
By: Hakuchi to paulie420 on Tue Aug 25 2020 08:44 pm
IRC haven't died, not even close. Sure that heavyuse time of 90's and early 2K is thing of past, but IRC wont go anywhere.
Just like some say that 'Slack killed the E-Mail ...' Or something stupid like that.
Good old tech never dies, while these new thingies seem to come and go faster than 80's comes back to fashion ...
Do people still use BBS IRC or is that dead? I used mIRC quite a lot back in its heyday.
Do people still use BBS IRC or is that dead? I used mIRC quite a lot
back in its heyday.
Sure they do. I have basically always used *nix shell whatnot IRC clients. Irssi for over 25 years. Many "youngsters" use WeeChat nowadays, but I haven't seen any reason to switch.
Although I did change from Screen to tmux some time ago.
DaiTengu wrote to Hakuchi <=-
I really need to make that switch, sometime. I keep meaning to, but screen commands are just so ingraned into my head.
Do people still use BBS IRC or is that dead? I used mIRC quite a lot
back in its heyday.
I started using this BBS recently. I kinda find it facinating since BBS is way before my time.
Time to schedule my annual colonoscopy....
(You're making us feel old)
I started using this BBS recently. I kinda find it facinating since BBS is way before my time.
DaiTengu wrote to Hakuchi <=-
Do people still use BBS IRC or is that dead? I used mIRC quite a lot
back in its heyday.
Sure they do. I have basically always used *nix shell whatnot IRC clients. Irssi for over 25 years. Many "youngsters" use WeeChat nowadays, but I haven't seen any reason to switch.
I moved from ircii, to Bitch-X, to irssi over the course of the
better part of the last 3 decades.
Although I did change from Screen to tmux some time ago.
I really need to make that switch, sometime. I keep meaning to,
but screen commands are just so ingraned into my head.
Fang-Castro wrote to Hatton <=-
Heh, my wife and I re-met on IRC but haven't been on since 2000 or so.
Wow, that's cool! 're-met'?
Daryl Stout wrote to DaiTengu <=-
Time to schedule my annual colonoscopy....
I get one done every 2 to 3 years...as I have a history
of benign polyps (but no cancer). However, I did lose an
uncle to colon cancer years ago.
(You're making us feel old)
Heh, my wife and I re-met on IRC but haven't been on since 2000 or so.
Yeah, it's something of a long story. The TL;DR - I married my high
school girlfriend's best friend and we all figured out who each other were on an EFNET IRC channel in 1996. We "dated" online for 10 months, lived together for 9 months and have been married for 22 years.
Wow! That's fantastic! Great story. I love the (We met online) stories. Now I'm waiting for 2 people to say we met on a BBS. :-)Heh, my wife and I re-met on IRC but haven't been on since 2000 orYeah, it's something of a long story. The TL;DR - I married my high
so.
school girlfriend's best friend and we all figured out who each other
Chadwick Bozeman just passed away of colon cancer at 43. Get tested,
folks.
(2 great uncles passed away of colon cancer, mom is a 20-year
survivor, my family gets tested regularly...)
Yeah, it's something of a long story. The TL;DR - I married my high
school girlfriend's best friend and we all figured out who each other
were on an EFNET IRC channel in 1996. We "dated" online for 10 months, lived together for 9 months and have been married for 22 years.
Wow! That's fantastic! Great story. I love the (We met online)
stories. Now I'm waiting for 2 people to say we met on a BBS. :-)
Wow! That's fantastic! Great story. I love the (We met online) stories. Now I'm waiting for 2 people to say we met on a BBS. :-)
Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
By: HusTler to Hatton on Mon Aug 31 2020 12:12 pm
Wow! That's fantastic! Great story. I love the (We met online)
stories. Now I'm waiting for 2 people to say we met on a BBS. :-)
One of the Co-SYSOPS on my board (still under construction) met his wife at a BBS gathering, not entirely sure if that counts or if they talked pre-meeting.
Hatton
Wow! That's fantastic! Great story. I love the (We met online) stories.
One of the Co-SYSOPS on my board (still under construction) met his wife at BBS gathering, not entirely sure if that counts or if they talked pre-meetin
That's great! I miss those BBS meets. Today we can't get people in IRC at the same time lol
Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
By: HusTler to Hatton on Tue Sep 01 2020 08:08 am
That's great! I miss those BBS meets. Today we can't get people in
IRC at the same time lol
Hah! Most of the time when I venture into an IRC channel it's an idle-fest. I will say that when I popped into the Synchronet I did at least get some response :)
well you cant expect people to wait there and answer right away. are you an important celebrity?
with irc you post something and when someone gets back to the keyboard they answer back. then you can have a conversation if person 1 isnt gone. it's just the way it is.
if you were to see a super active irc channel it would drive you nuts with all the scrolling.
if you were to see a super active irc channel it would drive you nuts with all the scrolling.
Nightfox wrote to MRO <=-
It seems to me Discord is more suited for the type of
communication where you can leave a message and wait a while,
because you can quit out of Discord and go back, and it saves
what channels you were in, chat history, etc., so you can go back
into Discord later and basically get back to where you were
easily and check for messages.
On the other hand, IRC doesn't save the chat history or your
channels locally when you exit out, so you'd have to leave it
running.
One of the Co-SYSOPS on my board (still under construction) met his wife at BBS gathering, not entirely sure if that counts or if they talked pre-meetin
That's great! I miss those BBS meets. Today we can't get people in
IRC at the same time lol
well you cant expect people to wait there and answer right away. are yo an important celebrity?
with irc you post something and when someone gets back to the keyboard they answer back. then you can have a conversation if person 1 isnt gon it's just the way it is.
if you were to see a super active irc channel it would drive you nuts w all the scrolling.
Generally, that wasn't my experience when I used to use IRC (mid-90s to earl 2000s). Most of the time, when I used to use IRC, the channels I was in wer almost always fairly active. I used to go chat about stuff in IRC for a whi at a time. For instance, in the mid-90s, there was an OS/2 channel I used t chat in, and there was almost always some conversation there when I joined. seems things are different these days, because I rarely had to leave my computer running all day to wait for a response.
It seems to me Discord is more suited for the type of communication where yo can leave a message and wait a while, because you can quit out of Discord an go back, and it saves what channels you were in, chat history, etc., so you go back into Discord later and basically get back to where you were easily a check for messages.
On the other hand, IRC doesn't save the chat history or your channels locall when you exit out, so you'd have to leave it running.
Nightfox
The real kicker for running an IRC client is running it in an Unix shell that is up 24/7. That way you can connect to it whenever you want and check all the backscroll you want. It works very well that way.
On 09-01-20 22:36, Nightfox wrote to MRO <=-
Generally, that wasn't my experience when I used to use IRC (mid-90s to early 2000s). Most of the time, when I used to use IRC, the channels I was in were almost always fairly active. I used to go chat about stuff
in IRC for a while at a time. For instance, in the mid-90s, there was
an OS/2 channel I used to chat in, and there was almost always some conversation there when I joined. It seems things are different these days, because I rarely had to leave my computer running all day to wait for a response.
It seems to me Discord is more suited for the type of communication
where you can leave a message and wait a while, because you can quit
out of Discord and go back, and it saves what channels you were in,
chat history, etc., so you can go back into Discord later and basically get back to where you were easily and check for messages.
On the other hand, IRC doesn't save the chat history or your channels locally when you exit out, so you'd have to leave it running.
That's great! I miss those BBS meets. Today we can't get people in
IRC at the same time lol
Years ago, there was one at a local Denny's. One of the Sysops (he passed away several years ago) there had a fancy new laptop...and when he brought it out of its carrying bag, all conversation stopped, and all eyes moved to the table!! <G>
Years ago, there was one at a local Denny's. One of the Sysops (he passed away several years ago) there had a fancy new laptop...and when he brought it out of its carrying bag, all conversation stopped, and all eyes moved to the table!! <G>
I'll bet. You should see the ancient laptop I use lol. I'd probably drool all over the guys fancy new laptop. ;-)
Gamgee wrote to Nightfox <=-
One disadvantage to Discord, for me anyway, is that it (the
application) requires you to be running a GUI on your OS of
choice. I don't always have that available.
The way I do IRC is that I have an Raspberry Pi running all the
time, doing various things (DynDNS updater, small backup
repository, and some others). It's headless and runs Linux.
On 09-03-20 06:55, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Gamgee <=-
Like every other chat platform out there, I'm pretty sure I saw an
IRC to Discord bridge.
One way to get the best of both worlds. :) For text, IRC and Discord are a pretty good match.
On 09-06-20 09:09, HusTler wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Discord sux. It's slow and clunkey. It maybe fine for people with
rocket fast internet but for the average internet user it's slow where
as IRC uses minimal resources. There's no comparision. That's my two
cents anyway. ;-)
IRC is good when there's active chat (and I do miss that side of IRC), but a messaging system, it doesn't work for me. Jumping through hoops with screen etc, doesn't do it for me. :(
On the other hand, IRC doesn't save the chat history or your channels locally when you exit out, so you'd have to leave it running.
HusTler wrote to Vk3jed <=-
IRC is good when there's active chat (and I do miss that side of IRC), but a messaging system, it doesn't work for me. Jumping through hoops with screen etc, doesn't do it for me. :(
Yea. It's too bad BBS SysOps don't use IRC much.
On the other hand, IRC doesn't save the chat history or your channels
locally when you exit out, so you'd have to leave it running.
Or you use a bouncer. I use this one: https://wiki.znc.in/ZNC
So yeah, I get chat history. And I can connect from multiple clients without having multiple nicks.
On 09-07-20 10:34, HusTler wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Yea. It's too bad BBS SysOps don't use IRC much. I mean for general
chit chat. There's also MRC . There are meets on Fri and Sat night. MarisaG has a synchronetbbs fan discord server. Same thing there.
Whenever I stop by nobody is home. I suppose if I hung around long
enough I'd run into somebody. All of the social media outlets have chat services. Maybe that's the problem? Too many choices?? ;-)
Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Mon Sep 07 2020 06:43 pm
On the other hand, IRC doesn't save the chat history or your channels
locally when you exit out, so you'd have to leave it running.
Or you use a bouncer. I use this one: https://wiki.znc.in/ZNC
So yeah, I get chat history. And I can connect from multiple clients
without having multiple nicks.
Interesting, I hadn't seen an IRC bouncer before.
Or you use a bouncer. I use this one: https://wiki.znc.in/ZNC
So yeah, I get chat history. And I can connect from multiple clients without having multiple nicks.
Interesting, I hadn't seen an IRC bouncer before.
Too much choice and varying quality of notifications. Facebook chat's big strength is notifications you can't miss (at least on Android). Discord has good notifications, IRC is less oriented towards intermittent chat.
Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
By: Vk3jed to HusTler on Tue Sep 08 2020 02:28 pm
Too much choice and varying quality of notifications. Facebook chat's bi strength is notifications you can't miss (at least on Android). Discord good notifications, IRC is less oriented towards intermittent chat.
Yea. I got catfished a few years back and since then have decided any form chat may be hazardous to ones health.
HusTler
havens.synchro.net:23
On 09-08-20 10:02, HusTler wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Yea. I got catfished a few years back and since then have decided any form of chat may be hazardous to ones health.
Yea. I got catfished a few years back and since then have decided any
form chat may be hazardous to ones health.
Well, that could also happen to you via DoveNET, you know...
I have met a lot of hot women on IRC but I always have the shadow of doubt hovering around. Why if this gal is actually a Communist guy trying to sell to the FSB or something?
I had began talking to this woman on the phone (Met her on hangouts). I thought it would turn into something real. When she began asking for money and gifts I relized I was being scammed. I don't see myself meeting woman on Dovenet but I'll be carefull not to send anyone on Dovenet any monetary gifts. Or a new pair of panties lol
Re: Re: 3rd BBS allnighter
By: Vk3jed to HusTler on Tue Sep 08 2020 02:28 pm
Too much choice and varying quality of notifications. Facebook chat'sbig
strength is notifications you can't miss (at least on Android). Discord has good notifications, IRC is less oriented towards intermittent chat.
Yea. I got catfished a few years back and since then have decided any form of chat may be hazardous to ones health.
meeting woman on Dovenet but I'll be carefull not to send anyone on Dovenet any monetary gifts. Or a new pair of panties lol
there are no women on dovenet.
Yea. I got catfished a few years back and since then have decided any
form of chat may be hazardous to ones health.
Oh, but did you get to be on that show on MTV?!? :-)
HusTler wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Discord sux. It's slow and clunkey. It maybe fine for people with
rocket fast internet but for the average internet user it's slow where
as IRC uses minimal resources. There's no comparision. That's my two
cents anyway. ;-)
there are no women on dovenet.
there are no women on dovenet.
That reminds me... I have not seen Marisag post in a while. Hope she is doing ok.
* SLMR 2.1a * Some men are discovered; others are found out.
there are no women on dovenet.
That reminds me... I have not seen Marisag post in a while. Hope she is doing ok.
maybe mariag is a dude too. there's a few trans sysops
well you cant expect people to wait there and answer right away. are
you an important celebrity?
with irc you post something and when someone gets back to the keyboard they answer back. then you can have a conversation if person 1 isnt
gone. it's just the way it is.
if you were to see a super active irc channel it would drive you nuts
with all the scrolling. ---
= Synchronet = ::: BBSES.info - free BBS services :::
Discord sux. It's slow and clunkey. It maybe fine for people with
rocket fast internet but for the average internet user it's slow where
as IRC uses minimal resources. There's no comparision. That's my two
cents anyway. ;-)
HusTler
havens.synchro.net:23
---
= Synchronet = Havens BBS havens.synchro.net
Interesting, I hadn't seen an IRC bouncer before.
Too much choice and varying quality of notifications. Facebook chat's
big strength is notifications you can't miss (at least on Android). Discord has good notifications, IRC is less oriented towards
intermittent chat.
there are no women on dovenet.
That reminds me... I have not seen Marisag post in a while. Hope
she is doing ok.
maybe mariag is a dude too. there's a few trans sysops
Well, either way, I have not seen Marisag post in quite a while, here or
well you cant expect people to wait there and answer right away.
are you an important celebrity?
with irc you post something and when someone gets back to the
keyboard they answer back. then you can have a conversation if
person 1 isnt gone. it's just the way it is.
It used to be that way back in the 90ties. 30-50 people active on a channel and non stop talking.
Maybe that's exactly what people miss when refer to IRC?
It's slow and clunky because this is Javascript application embedded into an exe package. So to run itself it needs the whole webkit engine from chrome being instantiated in the background, including lots of stuff that you don't actually need.
It's slowliness is not related to the network bandwidth as much as how much resources from your local computer it consumed being so terribly unoptimized desktop app.
I use Discord, where there is live it's just next-gen IRC to me. But I use it only in a browser as a web app, bookmarked. I killed the destkop app, same with Slack, which comes with similar performance story.
What makes it posisitve to use Discord comparing to IRC is that you're not exposing your host while being connected. which may be important for cybersec related reasons.
On 09-12-20 21:04, hollowone wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Irc was more about live expererience, here and now.
Or about reading the log from the past and responding, more like usenet but in a chatty way.. or mixed kind of experience I'm turning myself
back here while answering to your messages via offline mode and then uploading.
Sysop: | MCMLXXIX |
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Location: | Prospect, CT |
Users: | 325 |
Nodes: | 10 (0 / 10) |
Uptime: | 136:13:57 |
Calls: | 501 |
Messages: | 218440 |