BBS: TELESC.NET.BR Assunto: RE: modded bbs's De: MRO Data: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 03:59:15 -0500 ----------------------------------------------------------- Re: RE: modded bbs's By: Hm Derdoc to Mortar on Wed Mar 18 2026 11:41 pm > Re: RE: modded bbs's > By: Robert Wolfe to HM DERDOC on Tue Mar 17 2026 15:49:00 > > Just spent some time there, and yeah, it's very customized, but not better. > I found it rather tedious navigating the screens of "icons", particularly > in the Forums and News Reader sections. Not to mention that the > descriptions are heavily abbreviated for lack of space, so you're not > always sure what your going into. a list mode is definitely needed. > > "better" is certainly subjective, but you do hit the nail on the head in some > ways as to some challenges. running an icon driven board where the icons are > 12 x 6 means I have to cut things off at 12 characters, it's not really a > problem when I have time and skill to draw a nice icon or go in there and use > some human judgment on what to label something, but there are times when I > import a lot of stuff, and forums and RSS feeds are good examples of that. I > don't consider myself an ANSI artist, more of a coder so on one hand it's > great when I can add a new network or door game, on the otherhand i've got to > get icons and labels for these things. there are over 5000 RSS feeds being > fed through there - they have semi-dynamic icons, but yeah, easy to get lost > in there, at least first time (once you recognize the icons like me, you can > be in a stupor and find your way around -> we've tested it) as you know i visited your bbs after 12 hrs of working and a hazy mind but i didn't really see any issues with navigation or difficulty in understanding What i was selecting on your bbs. I think he was going a bit too fast and maybe preoccupied. > > To me, it's more curation than design, but yeah, I acknowledge the > clunkiness there and I'd like to reach more of a "curation" phase than > "development" (I gotta stop adding stuff - i wish i had a cosysop - i'll be > done soon, i keep telling myself). List mode can be a thing for another > rewrite, this things held together with rubber bands and chewing gum lol > > i think there's definitely things you probably missed in your session - even > when you go idle interesting things happens, but i mean it's fair to come to > the conclusion it's not "better" at face value 2 seconds in if traditional > BBS's interfaces are your jam - which is probably a lot of people here. me > personally, i'm totally happy how it's turned out though myself for whatever > reasons. > > sometimes i use arrows to get around, sometimes i use typeahead mode, but > mostly i just use my mouse and slouch way back. sometimes i just trip out > off the screensavers and fall out of my chair. maybe it's just a curiosity > for some, but i can loiter here endlessly. it's designed for loitering, > really - i guess in my BBS heyday, I'd loiter on multi-line boards for hours > - that's the nostalgia goal for me, loitering on the fringes of cyberspace > with gifted delinquents, it's more abstract. :) > > cheers, > derdok > it's good to have something playful and different. really, what else do we have now for bbses? Stuff that most regular people would not be interested in. -- "Before using Wildcat....This Company did not have a convenient way of looking after some of the richest clients in the world...Now we do!" President of BBS Sysop's Union +++ https://bbses.info/union --- Synchronet ::: BBSES.info - free BBS services ::: ----------------------------------------------------------- [Voltar]