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|    Charles Pierson to August Abolins    |
|    the UI for echos    |
|    18 Nov 20 14:08:18    |
      MSGID: 1:153/757.26 7cf06c3e       PID: Hotdoged/2.13.5/Android       TID: jNode/Android       CHRS: UTF-8 4       REPLY: 2:333/808.7 5fb54d8a       Hello, August Abolins.       On 11/18/20 5:25 PM you wrote:               CP>> BBSes have all of the options to do pretty much that. Just not         CP>> necessarily pretty buttons.        AA> An upgrade on layout would be good, especially when reading         AA> through the various echos of a network. I think there is only one         AA> Sychronet bbs that organizes the echos into categories first:         AA> Technical, Entertainment, Sysop, GeneralChat, etc.. and then all         AA> the echos spanning any of the other networks are featured in those         AA> categories. Most BBSes organize by network, and then just list the         AA> echos. A user does not always have a clear idea what echo is for         AA> what. And then they have to look for the same thing in the next         AA> network. The default Sychro webby-thing is a good example. Unless         AA> the user has the habit of using Ctrl-F to look for a string (chat,         AA> food, computer, books, music, etc) they are spending far too much         AA> time looking at a long list, missing something, and give up.              That comes down to the various programs, and the Sysops.              I believe at least several programs have the option for at least short       descriptions for the message areas. Whether or not they are used is to each       Sysop.              Web interfaces, I couldn't say. I've not really studied them much.                     --       Best regards!       Posted using Hotdoged on Android       --- Hotdoged/2.13.5/Android        * Origin: Houston, TX (1:153/757.26)       SEEN-BY: 105/81 129/305 153/757 229/426 664 700 282/1038 301/1 322/757       PATH: 153/757 229/664 426           |
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