Hello MATT,
1. I am thinking a traffic report should be avaliable about the
message base activity on the backbone might be an idea.
There is a list of areas and traffic in those areas posted in the fido gazette every week.
The STATS area also has stats posted from various systems so you can see what areas are avtive and just how active they are.
2. I also think it will have to take marketing from various groups
that are chased away from places like Facebook and Reddit to come back
to the bbsing world.
I don't think the BBS has much of a future. I have always enjoyed BBSing myself
and prefer a telnet or ssh session but folks today don't need an interface like
that and just don't understand what it is or what it can do for them.
I think if we had a client/server model of some sort that folks could easily connect to with the app of their choice we would see more usage.
My lady friend for example has a desktop and laptop of her own. She has not used either since she got her tablet. She simply installs the app she wants and
away she goes. She does not know or care what FTN is. She just wants to install
her app and go.
We don't currently have a client/server model or the apps that folks might install but we could do that if we wanted to and if we had folks with those skills on board. We would need a plan to create all that and make it as simple as installing.
I recon that's a fairly tall order. :)
Ttyl :-),
Al
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