Become Synchronet

[snow]

Joke title aside: I love the amount of protocols SynchroNet BBS provides, but the default web interface is... not the most intuitive. I get why-- it's a terminal BBS, not a web forum!

Since SMF already has the paradigm of "pretty good web forum" though, and there are plenty of ways to integrate with it, why not try a different direction for the same idea?

NNTP is my first thought, since it'd be closest to the existing forum concept.
IRC is still on the table, although I imagine it'd be more like what was mentioned in the To-Do thread. Having a web client for it would be nice too, for those who don't care to pull out their mIRC keys.
I probably won't work on a Telnet/SSH server, but I won't stop anyone else from taking on a massive quest.

[lifning]

if we make an SSH server, i think any door games should as a courtesy also be available to web users via xterm.js (as a courtesy to SSH users that is, so they're less lonely on the minesweeper leaderboards)

[viviridian]

i think this idea's a bit out there, but maybe a git forge? i wonder if there are interesting usage patterns that would emerge if threads could have a git repo sidecar

rss could be interesting? like what if you could set up a board to behave as an rss *client* so that when new posts were added to the feed, they'd show up in that forum. could be a way to approximate federation between two consenting smf boards by pointing them at each other

for notifications it'd be neat to support webhooks in addition to email. i have a ntfy.sh instance i occasionally use for stuff

also fwiw i haven't really tried synchronet so i don't have much context to ground my ideas in