Re: TBBS   
     By: Rob Swindell to Eric Oulashin on Thu May 12 2016 17:22:32   
      
    >> remember if most BBS packages worked like that; however, Synchronet's   
    >> reader interface seemed odd to me.  I tend to like to see a list of   
    >> messages and choose   
    >> which ones I want to read based on the subject (although I do know   
    >> that message threads tend to drift off the subject after a while).  I   
    >> ended up making my own message lister/reader mod for Synchronet where   
    >> I could bring up a list of messages and choose the ones I want to   
    >> read, rather than being (pretty much) forced to read through every   
    >> single one.    
      
    RS> Synchronet's built-in message reading interface was heavily influenced by   
    RS> WWIV. So if you're used to WWIV or one of its spin-offs (RG, Tag), it   
    RS> would seem familiar to you (e.g. use 'T' to list the next 10 messages, 'L'   
    RS> to list them all).   
      
    RS> Of course, I've seen and used other BBS software which always wanted the   
    RS> user to "pick" a message to begin reading and I never liked that design,   
    RS> probably just because it's just not what I was used to.   
      
    RS> So it's great that you were able to design something more to your liking   
    RS> and integrate that with Synchronet for your users and other sysops who   
    RS> prefer a different take on traditional BBS message reading. The fact that   
    RS> you were able to do that (and of course, I had to make enable some   
    RS> external "hooks" and probably fix some bugs along the way to make it more   
    RS> "seemless") is a testiment both to your programming abilities and the   
    RS> extensiblity of Synchronet.    
      
   I do think Synchronet is a great piece of software, for its extensibility and   
   flexibility.  I just re-read my comment about the reader interface, and I want   
   to be clear that I was not intending to sound negative about Synchronet.    
   Synchronet's extensibility via scripting in JS is one of my favorite things   
   about it and is one of the main reasons why I'm running Synchronet.  And I   
   appreciate you continued work on Synchronet.  Thank you very much for adding   
   the ability to allow an external reader script to be integrated more into   
   Synchronet.   
      
   Eric   
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