>0 gtlsgamr @ 2022/07/08 18:00
So I am a part of ctrl-c.club as well as tilde.team, and both have their own bbs implementations. (bbj, iris). Personally I prefer iris as it is much more cleaner on the screen and easier on the eyes. BBJ on the other end looks very intuitive and with an easy learning curve. That also brings me to the question, are both of these homegrown? In the tildeverse? Would love to know your thoughts.
>1 tomasino @ 2022/07/08 18:05
>>OP Yep, both home grown, but I believe iris has had continued development.
>2 gtlsgamr @ 2022/07/08 18:08
>>1 That is so good to know! I wonder why this BBS culture died out.
>3 jacksonbenete @ 2022/07/08 23:20
>>2 It not really died. It might have died quite a bit on the West, but it's still used in many places. PTT is a Taiwanese BBS, it still have half a million new comments every day. BBS are still quite famous on Japan as well, and many other services have evolved from BBS, such Textboards (2channel and many others). The evolution of Textboards are Imageboards, the most famous one might be 4chan over here. So, at least the legacy of BBS are still around, but PTT is not going anywhere so soon. BBS will probably always exists. I think that reddit, hn and other "news aggregators" might be the modern iteration of the idea, but with social media features (like, share, etc). I don't like social media, so I prefer BBS and Textboards, but I use reddit to visit some IT subs.
>4 anthk @ 2022/07/20 20:37
>>3 On Reddit I suggest you goppher://gopherddit.com under Lynx.
>5 jacksonbenete @ 2022/07/21 17:35
>>4 That's very very cool, thank you for sharing. Now I have an alias for it. haha alias reddit='lynx $lcfg gopher://gopherddit.com' What are your lynx config by the way? If you're not using default.
>6 anthk @ 2022/07/22 22:39
>>5 I use 'export LYNX_CFG=$HOME/.lynx.cfg' in my ~/.profile I copied /etc/lynx.cfg to ~/.lynx.cfg and mainly I have this changes in order to call some tools to see images and such: VIEWER:application/postscript:gv %s& VIEWER:image/gif:nsxiv -a %s& VIEWER:image/x-xbm:nsxiv -a %s& VIEWER:image/png:nsxiv -a %s& VIEWER:image/tiff:nsxiv -a %s& VIEWER:image/jpeg:nsxiv -a %s& VIEWER:video/mpeg:mpv %s & Don't add them as they are, but look up for these lines and change them accordingly.
>7 quark @ 2023/03/09 15:47
>>OP How does iris looks like? Is it available on a public repo to take a look at its code? I know BBJ is at https://github.com/bbj-dev/bbj.
>8 quark @ 2023/03/09 16:02
>>7 I think I found it: https://github.com/Calamitous/iris
>9 quark @ 2023/03/09 20:31
>>OP Having run both, BBJ is a more complete BBS. It runs a webserver, and all client's interaction is done via APIs. You can run it locally, or allow access to it from the Tubes. You can also put it behind a proxy. Iris, on the other hand, simply writes to files on your home directory. It is meant to be used only locally. It is super simple (by design, I figure).