Hi folks -

I'm waist deep on designing ansi screens for my upcoming bbs. The
platform of choice has been nudging toward mystic but a few questions
have arisen.

Most bbs time is spent on the bottomless abyss bbs and, lately, I've
been doing rounds on other boards where I have memberships. Some
synchronet boards have a 'forum' that, upon examination, are styled like
web forums where you go into a topic, select a post, and the original
message is listed with all replies threaded below it. This gets my
juices going.

From what I hear, mystic doesn't have such a 'forum' door. Is it
possible to load such synchronet software on a mystic board? Or would I
have to stand up a synchronet board alongside my mystic to enjoy this
feature?

This may appear like a straight forward question but I have no
experience as a sysop.

Thanks

Daniel
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Hello Daniel,

On Sat, Nov 23 2024 00:23:16 -0600, you wrote:

Most bbs time is spent on the bottomless abyss bbs and, lately, I've
been doing rounds on other boards where I have memberships. Some
synchronet boards have a 'forum' that, upon examination, are styled like
web forums where you go into a topic, select a post, and the original
message is listed with all replies threaded below it. This gets my
juices going.

I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to here, unless it's something like this:

https://pharcyde.org/messagelister.png

From what I hear, mystic doesn't have such a 'forum' door. Is it
possible to load such synchronet software on a mystic board? Or would I
have to stand up a synchronet board alongside my mystic to enjoy this feature?

Mystic does indeed have that same feature. Take a look at the "message index" reader thing, as I'm not sure it's a default setting or not. The menu item command would be 'MI - Message Index Reader', though.

Hopefully that's something in the realm of what you were asking for, otherwise I just typed out a bunch of junk you didn't need. :)

This may appear like a straight forward question but I have no
experience as a sysop.

Gotta learn somewhere, and you've come to the right place!

Regards,
Nick

... He who laughs last, thinks slowest.
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nospam.Nicholas.Boel@f1.n770.z4725.fidonet.org (Nicholas Boel) writes:

Hello Daniel,

On Sat, Nov 23 2024 00:23:16 -0600, you wrote:

Most bbs time is spent on the bottomless abyss bbs and, lately, I've
been doing rounds on other boards where I have memberships. Some
synchronet boards have a 'forum' that, upon examination, are styled like
web forums where you go into a topic, select a post, and the original
message is listed with all replies threaded below it. This gets my
juices going.

I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to here, unless it's something

like

this:

https://pharcyde.org/messagelister.png

No. If you ever get a chance to connect to the following bbs's, they
have examples

Another Droid BBS - Ph0rum - andr01d.zapto.org - telnet 9999
Archaic Binary BBS - forum - bbs.archaicbinary.net - ssh 22

I'm sure there are many more.

From what I hear, mystic doesn't have such a 'forum' door. Is it
possible to load such synchronet software on a mystic board? Or would I
have to stand up a synchronet board alongside my mystic to enjoy this
feature?

Mystic does indeed have that same feature. Take a look at the "message

index"

reader thing, as I'm not sure it's a default setting or not. The menu item command would be 'MI - Message Index Reader', though.

Hopefully that's something in the realm of what you were asking for,

otherwise

I just typed out a bunch of junk you didn't need. :)

This may appear like a straight forward question but I have no
experience as a sysop.

Gotta learn somewhere, and you've come to the right place!

Regards,
Nick

... He who laughs last, thinks slowest.

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