Re: Current state of VBBS (aka VADV) and community?

> Lately, I've been wanting to get away from social media (Facebook, Twitter,
> etc.) and get back to simpler forms of communication and community.  I've bee
> coming to this website for years, off and on, with ideas of starting a BBS
> again.  I ran one for 5+ years back in the day.  Each time, I wanted to but
> didn't have the drive to do so, that and I couldn't find my darn BBS files.
> Anyway, so I recently set about looking for BBS software to run.  I would
> *love* to run a VBBS bulletin board, but the community appears to be dead.
> Still that shouldn't keep me from running a BBS, because--well, the more the
> better.
>
> So I set about checking other BBS software, just to see what's been going on
> and what I found is there are pockets of activity with other BBS packages.
> Mystic BBS seems to be one of the more active software packages.  I think the
> reason why is because the author is still active and the software is develope
> in Free Pascal, which supports multiple platforms.
>
> I'm torn between nostalgia of my old BBS days and the need to be in an active
> community that is still passionate about BBSing.  Is there anyone still here?
> How many BBS's are still active?
>

BBSing in general is dead. There may be 10-20 VADV boards left that I could
find if I looked hard. Synchronet may be the most popular now but most of the
systems are bone stock. Mystic has a decent following compared to the other
softwares. I feel that SysOps of all software rally to form whatever community
that is left. There really isn't big communities of each type of software like
there was in the old days.

I'd just pick whatever software you like and customize it as much as you can. I
notice a lot of the SysOps today don't really care to know how to make batch
files, how to work in DOS (or even Windows for that matter), or to do basic
scripting. There is so much cool stuff that could be done that I don't have
time for now.


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