Final Zone BBS has, once again, become a bit of a focus for me. and in this article I do a bit a catching up with the reader on the state of this 3 and a half year escapade!
BBS SYSOP Work is Never Done
Tag: Final Zone BBS
Retiring Final Zone BBS
All good things must come to an end, and this includes one of my pet projects over the past few years, Final Zone BBS…
Just kidding I restored the BBS a day after publishing this..
Working On The BBS Again
A little update on the state of Final Zone BBS.
6 Months Of Final Zone BBS
I didn’t realize until the other day that I’ve been running a Bulletin Board System for the past 6 months! To be fair, this particular “version” of the board didn’t start until June 6th of 2020 – the previous few weeks the system was running on a Raspberry Pi as a “test” board, but in […]
Why Run A Bulletin Board System In 2020?
It’s a question that most anyone who at least has a cursory knowledge of the subject will inevitably ask, in some form, when the topic if brought up of running an old fashioned Bulletin Board System in 2020 — why? Why would you spend the time and energy for something so primitive; a concept of […]
Looks Like I’m About To Spend All Night Hacking Again
That feed function I mentioned earlier is pretty neat, importing entries here on Xadara into my Bulletin Board System, but it has one MAJOR problem – it doesn’t import them WELL. By that, I mean it does a bit of a poor job in properly importing the excerpt of the post and thus has some […]
Introducing Final Zone BBS
For the past few months I’ve spent an incredible amount of time working on my own bulletin board system, or BBS. That’s right, a major project I’ve spent many days on has been my own implementation of an otherwise obsolete online communications method and it’s been one of the most fun things I’ve worked on […]