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What is the future of the BBS?
Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2020 9:12 pm
by Enigma
Not this BBS, but the BBS as a whole. I was thinking about migrating to vBulletin, as I often do consider doing, when I realized: how long do I expect vBulletin to continue to be supported? How long can I honestly expect ANY BBS software to be supported? Are BBSes even a thing popular enough to warrant paying for the software for much longer?
It all just seems so niche these days...
Re: What is the future of the BBS?
Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2020 11:36 pm
by Das Troll
Considering everyone is over at reddit, I don't know. I would like to say for a while but I just dont have faith.
Re: What is the future of the BBS?
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2020 6:13 am
by Enigma
It's just so up in the air. Surely there's still a desire for it.
Re: What is the future of the BBS?
Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2020 9:29 pm
by fuckreddit
its simple
its chill
it feels like a small town instead of a big city
they still have a cbbs running that says a lot about our situation
Re: What is the future of the BBS?
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2020 3:29 am
by Das Troll
There are still technically BBS's run on old C64 software/hardware.
Re: What is the future of the BBS?
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2020 8:24 am
by Enigma
I used to run a Totse BBS like 15 years ago (wow time flies) but, as you can imagine, nobody is really that interested in it taking 45 minutes to do basically nothing lol.