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BBS – Text-Only Online Community
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- jdp23 12y agoIt kind of reminds me of a usenet newsgroup without a newsreader ... everything old is new again.
- oliv__ 12y agoI like the design
- VLM 12y agoThe phone number auth is hilarious, this bbs doesn't have A phone number, this bbs has YOUR phone number! (edited to add, and it needs Tradewars 2000 as a door game)
- edna_piranha 12y agothe project is open source and there are contributors who own portions of services under development (such as text adventures and private messaging). btw, i am the one that created this :) https://github.com/bigboringsystem/ https://github.com/bigboringsystem/
- jevgeni 12y agoB.B.S. is awesome. If it had a huggable form, I'd never let go.
- tracker1 12y agopretty cool, been designing something for hub.bbs.io (not live) ... hoping to have it up by the end of next year (I kid, but that may well be the turnaround) ... Also, like that you're using node.js
- tarkin2 12y agoOpen source or not, there are those who don't want to give out their personal phone number to a server whose code they cannot verify.
- kbenson 12y agoIt's Tradewars 2002. Sorry to be pedantic, but I can't let my childhood memories erode any faster than they already are by accepting that. :)
- sweis 12y agoBig Boring System led me to reminisce and find an old school WWIV BBS and standalone Tradewars game accessible via telnet: telnet bbs.filenet.wwiv.net telnet twgs.exiled.org 2002
- coley 12y agoAre the pins sent by email via an SMS gateway? If so, why not just let people sign up with their email address? I'd like to join in on the fun, but not with my personal phone number.
- selenamarie 12y agoNo, it's using twilio. The code is open source - as mentioned downthread. https://github.com/bigboringsystem/ https://github.com/bigboringsystem/
- 01Michael10 12y agoIt's 2014 (almost 2015), you don't need to give your personal number. Google Voice is free and seems to work but can't confirm since the last text posted was at 12:28 pm. Bonus, one can use their PC with a real display and keyboard if use their GV number.
- tarkin2 12y agoGoogle Voice is not available everywhere.
- 01Michael10 12y agoSame with cell or phone service... There is not other services like GV that provider a phone number?
- tarkin2 12y agoI think the point is that email signup would be preferable for those who don't want to give it their personal phone number.
- 01Michael10 12y agoIt wouldn't be a texting only to post site then would it? My point is there are free services where one can get a second phone number for uses like this.
- anopheles 12y agoSeems the nginx server is already busted - 504s all over...
- selenamarie 12y agoIt's just periodically getting slammed. It comes back after a little bit.
- jasondenizac 12y agowhat a big and beautiful system!
- kid_icarus 12y agoThis literally changes everything.
- Xeoncross 12y agoIt's text-only like hacker news... but for useless chatter. Bonus: doesn't work without a trackable, paying subscription to a cell carrier (some workarounds like Google Voice exist).
- collypops 12y ago"for useless chatter" You'll fit right in, then.
- relaytheurgency 12y agoWho needs this when you can telnet telehack.com
- kid_icarus 12y agoMake sure you don't post any ascii butts as this is a real, serious community. Your posts will be deleted and your account will be banned...
- selenamarie 12y agoWe didn't ban your account, Ryan.
- devindotcom 12y agoI love this and I've been thinking of something along these lines myself. Having an all-text site with a mouse-driven interface seems somehow wrong though. I guess I'm just used to having things rescan whenever I hit a command. More BBSes please! Legend of Red Dragon!!
- j-b 12y agoAfter school I would rush home and dial up to my local 4-node BBS and play LORD for hours. One day the Sysop noticed how much I was playing and used a cheat which gave me the very hard to get "blood sword". Good times!
- waxjar 12y agoI feel like I'm missing something..
- zem 12y agolove it :)
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