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mono is great! Having a copy of the clone is good to understand how it ticks :) .
I was wondering if you could easily have more than one User Interface on a citadel bbs? I know any long standing users of citadel would find it hard to switch maybe, but i'm not aq long standing user of citadel or mono bbs systems and i can zip round mono in a few keypresses (they reference boards by their "keypaths" so the ones you use are easy to get too by pressing all the keys at once). It has alot of great features!
I might try citadel on a Pi first then, i have seen mention on the wiki that a few people run citadel on Rasp Pi's.
I was wondering if you could easily have more than one User Interface on a citadel bbs?
Citadel listens on port 504 for general communication, the text client uses this port. So if you had the skills, you could write your own client or adapt the mono stuff to access a citadel. We are probably talking about some high level skills here.
You can also modify the looks of a webinterface accessing Citadel. Or maybe even rewrite it.
Some people wrote perl and php stuff to access a Citadel. Look around through the wiki.
So the citadel text client/bbs, is exactly that--a client - and not needed for citserver? Ah ! And citadel is written in C and has an API(s) (whatever they are :) ) so you could have a second text client? I thought that the text client was some underlying framework that some of the other stuff was dependant on maybe, for some reason. lol
Could you, in good faith, call Citadel a Citadel if it used another txt client?
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Some people wrote perl and php stuff to access a Citadel. Look around through the wiki.
Btw Thanks ! I'll start reading!
Consider that WebCit is a front-end to the Citadel system, much like text client is a front end to the Citadel system that just uses a telnet-like interface (in that it's the classic 80's BBS feel).
One could probably reskin WebCit to appear like Monochrome's web site with a little conversion effort (accounting for Citadel's additional features).
monochrome's website is only an info page - the monochrome bbs is only reachable through telnet/SSH - its still a traditional bbs that has grown form a simple pascal menu oriented program in 1987 by David Brownlee at City University London. It has been online to the masses (non-university spods) since the early 90's, once having a large usebase before such things as livejournal (their journaling/diary system is nice :) ), twitter and facebook came on the scene, aswell as the ubiquitous web forums.
Its still a thriving community, if somewhat smaller, and the bbs system is still very good, very easy to navigate and full of potential. I'm suprised i have never seen another menu tyope system like it (maybe gopher?). It also looks greta on my smartphone and is a doddle to use with that.
You have to look around the bbs, stricly off limits to http and anything google:
ssh mono@mono.org
There are 5 user on now, there can be 20+ on during the day, at the same time- most people are in and out after reading or posting to their fave boards etc.
Loads of games on there too text adventures and whatnot and there are a few muds you can access (telnet is also a menu object/type/thingey), they have thier own annimation langauge which provides the graphics/banners and lots besides (more games whatnots).
It has alot in common - community -wise with sdf.org another long standing community on the net, but it has just kept to being a BBS.
Btw I like webcit as it is, i wouldn't want to try and turn it into something else. It's great!
Having a mono-like board as a text client however sounds nice though :)
Have you been connecting to Citadel via ssh?
ssh bbs@uncensored.citadel.org gives a pretty decent text experience, although we don't tend to use menus in the style of WWIV or Fido, preferring a different approach.
I mean, you can see some of that with '?', but you get a fair amount of power with the '.' commands.
Lots of people log in to Uncensored! every day using SSH or Telnet. It's the "old-skool" way :)
And pretty much every BBS community out there has a similar story to tell -- a big influx of users when the Internet first went mainstream, and then quite a thinning of the herd when Fecesbook became to BBS's what Wal-Mart is to local shopkeepers.
We have fared better than most. I like to think it's not only because our message boards are accessible via text or web, but also because we've done a good job at embracing the Citadel way of life, which is more than just software, it's an attitude. Looking elsewhere it's not quite as dandy. ISCA is a shadow of its former self; Quartz is a ghost town.
Yeah you are right bbs = the people not the UI.
UI wise i like the menu system - it seems you can never get lost even with a very large amount of content. And i just got my fingers round it. :)
I tend to use Citadel's "March Mode" of hitting spacebar to read all unread messages, one at a time, through all rooms, untill I'm done. It's very clean.