RE: Ideas to make Fidonet Great Again
BY: All

1. I am thinking a traffic report should be avaliable about the message base activity on the backbone might be an idea.
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.

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Re: Ideas to make Fidonet Great Again
By: MATT MUNSON to All on Sun Jun 21 2020 09:38 am

RE: Ideas to make Fidonet Great Again
BY: All

1. I am thinking a traffic report should be avaliable about the message base

activity on the backbone might be an idea.

2. I also think it will have to take marketing from various groups that are

chased away from places like Facebook and Reddi

to come back to the bbsing world.

Wild idea: set a BBS with an interface available as an i2p hidden service, then
advertise it on the big i2p forums and chat
platforms. I bet at least somebody will join.

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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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RE: Re: Ideas to make Fidonet Great Again
BY: Alan Ianson(1:153/757)

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.

Perhaps maybe us running the forums as newsgroups and have a easy way for people to sign up for the nntp server might be the idea.

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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.

Perhaps maybe us running the forums as newsgroups and have a easy way for people to sign up for the nntp server might be the idea.

A news server is one possibility. That works for folks who know how to setup a newsfeed and know the details to enter for a specific server or servers. There are a number of those servers setup now that folks can use. It does have an advantage in that we already have the servers and apps available for folks to use so that is a big plus.

What I am thinking is something designed for what we want to do, FTN netmail and echomail in an easy to install and use format for folks who just want to chat and not need to learn what FTN is and how to set it up. Does that make any
sense?

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Re: Ideas to make Fidonet Great Again
By: MATT MUNSON to All on Sun Jun 21 2020 09:38:00

1. I am thinking a traffic report should be avaliable about the
message base activity on the backbone might be an idea.

this already exists by at least one backbone star... it may or may not be accurate for all the stars but it should be very close...


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On 7/2/2020 1:08 AM, between "Alan Ianson : August Abolins":

I have the beginnings of an MBSE setup here. I have the trmb.ca website back online now. The webpage needs to be written still, there are only links
right now to some statistics pages including message area stats created by NBSE.

It's limited to the nets and areas I have here but it's online for folks to look at anytime and is updated at every toss.

The real-time or per toss update is to be expected, no exception! :)

The http://trmb.ca/stat/mareas.html is pretty darn good. It is very helpful to
display the official Tag name like you have it (and not just a description like
most of the Synchronet sites do).

You have a little problem with the "IndexIndex" pointing back to http://trmb.ca/stat/index.html

It's fine start. Dress it up gradually.

I'll send you a little "fido" doggie you might like to use.

Then we'd need programmers to write apps for the PC/Android/IPad so they would need to know how the servers work and where to connect to them.

The good programmers have been too busy in other markets! https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-53263310 LOL

tenser (Dan Cross) once asked folks (in fsxNet) generally what need to be done or improved. I think he was talking FTN but I have wondered if he might find this interesting.

Try to rope him over here! :)

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