fusion wrote to kk4qbn <=-

i frequently watch people have chats in near realtime on FTN. it
wouldn't be unreasonable to implement a "scan for new messages forever" option on a BBS nowadays and just have it spew messages realtime.

Center of Awareness (CoA) was a BBS network that offered instaneous chat
and messaging, it was the brainchild of electronic chicken, if memory
serves. Very cool tech that took BBS networking in a different
direction.



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Re: Re: Fwd: Girls got chip planted without them knowing it
By: Kurt Weiske to fusion on Sat May 18 2024 07:32 am

fusion wrote to kk4qbn <=-

i frequently watch people have chats in near realtime on FTN. it wouldn't be unreasonable to implement a "scan for new messages forever" option on a BBS nowadays and just have it spew messages realtime.

Center of Awareness (CoA) was a BBS network that offered instaneous chat
and messaging, it was the brainchild of electronic chicken, if memory serves. Very cool tech that took BBS networking in a different
direction.

if it was so great why isn't it still around.
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Re: Re: Fwd: Girls got chip planted without them knowing it
By: MRO to Kurt Weiske on Sun May 19 2024 17:34:47

Center of Awareness (CoA) was a BBS network that offered instaneous chat

if it was so great why isn't it still around.

Mainly due to difference of opinion about how it should work. I wanted to do it right, others wanted to half-ass it. I cared about privacy and security, others didn't. It was a project that I started with friends and didn't want to continue without consensus, so I gave up.

The core idea was sound - networked messages, chat, games, a few other things, with almost no configuration required - and it would still be here today if I wanted it to be. There was no shortage of interest from sysops.

echicken
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Re: Re: Fwd: Girls got chip planted without them knowing it
By: echicken to MRO on Tue May 21 2024 02:57 am

Re: Re: Fwd: Girls got chip planted without them knowing it
By: MRO to Kurt Weiske on Sun May 19 2024 17:34:47

Center of Awareness (CoA) was a BBS network that offered instaneous chat

if it was so great why isn't it still around.

Mainly due to difference of opinion about how it should work. I wanted to do it right, others wanted to half-ass it. I cared about privacy and security, others didn't. It was a project that I started with friends and didn't want to continue without consensus, so I gave up.

The core idea was sound - networked messages, chat, games, a few other things, with almost no configuration required - and it would still be here today if I wanted it to be. There was no shortage of interest from sysops.

echicken

I've never seen any kind of partnership in the bbs world work out. Also if you do something in this "bbs scene" environment where there's almost no configuration, it attracts a bunch of people that don't contribute and aren't good for anything.

In BBSing where you're dealing with other sysops it's better to do things on your own, because you know what to expect and you don't need to depend on people. People mean well but they don't have the heart in most cases.

I had tons of people approach me when i was running the bbses.info's services and wanted to partner up. None of those guys stuck around long even though sometimes what they ran was pretty decent.

But yeah, of course sysops nowadays would want something they can hook up to and do nothing to setup or maintain. That's why there's so many default synchronet and mystic bbses. What you get in the end isn't something decent.
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