Well there goes the neighborhood..

What Aahz said.  There is plenty of fishiness happening here and we'd miss you if you disappeared.  ;-)

Awww...man. I am installing Citadel again literally because I wanted to replicate groups again. lol.

I have terrible timing.  Although, it has been 12 years since I wrote this (sorry, it's pay-walled, not my call): http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Issues/2006/73/Citadel/(kategorie)/0

- jon

Mon Jan 22 2018 09:23:20 EST from IGnatius T Foobar @ Uncensored

Although I already said it in the other room, ditto that same sentiment: the Dog Pound may be going, but Freakdog needs to stay.

The idea of networked rooms in its current form has, I think, become as antiquated as the idea of a dialup BBS. I don't think anyone is doing it anymore, and I'm going to remove that functionality from Citadel entirely. It's one of those things that adds a lot of complexity to the program without a lot of benefit. Eventually we'll put together a way for sites to do two-way syndication using standard protocols (something involving RSS or NNTP) and that opens up a lot of new possibilities.

Hi Jon!  Nice to see you again.

I think we'll probably have this functionality again someday, but it won't take the same form.  You might even be able to do it today using bidirectional RSS (I haven't tried it though).  Or we might do NNTP if we want to go really old-skool.  :)

The problem with Citadel's old site-to-site networking scheme is that it had become a very big maintenance workload for a function that no one was using.  We were able to shed thousands of lines of code, while making the remaining code cleaner, easier to read, and more secure.  I'm sorry to hear that the code we removed would have been useful to you.

This year marks the 20 year anniversary of the year we decided Citadel was going to be an "Exchange killer".  Things have changed a lot since then.  We found a sweet spot somewhere in between a groupware and a content management system, and people really seem to love it.  So it makes sense that we'll enhance our syndication capabilities beyond just serving and fetching RSS eventually.

Thanks!

On the most recent episode of my podcast (the JaK Attack!) I talked about the articles I had written for various Linux mags over the years and of course, Citadel is among them. That got me fired up about using it again and I am really happy to find it is still maintained.

I once wrote a series of brutally hacky scripts to support directional Fidonet echoes in and out of Simple Machines forum. I wonder if I remember any of that and if it is on any interest here....hmmm...let met see what I can recall.

Mon Jul 09 2018 10:19:30 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar @ Uncensored

Hi Jon!  Nice to see you again.

I think we'll probably have this functionality again someday, but it won't take the same form.  You might even be able to do it today using bidirectional RSS (I haven't tried it though).  Or we might do NNTP if we want to go really old-skool.  :)

The problem with Citadel's old site-to-site networking scheme is that it had become a very big maintenance workload for a function that no one was using.  We were able to shed thousands of lines of code, while making the remaining code cleaner, easier to read, and more secure.  I'm sorry to hear that the code we removed would have been useful to you.

This year marks the 20 year anniversary of the year we decided Citadel was going to be an "Exchange killer".  Things have changed a lot since then.  We found a sweet spot somewhere in between a groupware and a content management system, and people really seem to love it.  So it makes sense that we'll enhance our syndication capabilities beyond just serving and fetching RSS eventually.

I'm way late here, but is it true Vince passed away, a while back?

RIP Vince

I liked him, too - cascadeBBS was the only other citadel i ever visited,  and VInce was always very kind and a very cool guy, i thought.