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     Re: Easy lesson learned = time saved   
     By: Daniel to alt.bbs.synchronet,alt.bbs.mystic on Wed Dec 03 2025 07:53 pm   
      
    > Just sharing an accidental (unintended) discovery about a certain   
    > use case for the BBS.   
      
    > First, some history. Occasionally I catch up with Retro Recipes   
    > (perifractic) on youtube and was quite attentive to his purchase   
    > of commodore and his efforts to reboot the C64 platform. Basically,   
    > an FPGA jobber with the original breadbin designed molding, a   
    > mechanical keyboard, wifi and some flashy shit.   
      
    > For some time, I considered buying one to support his cause but, life   
    > is expensive as it is and I can't justify buying a 40 column device   
    > that'll serve to collect dust. Ultimately, I'm not nostalgic   
    > for the C64. Never had one as a kid, none of my friends did. The   
    > schools I attended had Apple. Bought a C64 mini from gamestop,   
    > on sale for $20, some years ago. The games aren't compelling   
    > to me. And, I'm accustomed to MS basic on my trs-80 laptop.   
      
    > So why am I here? Well, peri said that they've sold roughly 15000   
    > new c64u's. All with wifi. I operated under an assumption that we'd   
    > see an uptick of bbs logins from C64's looking for a petscii theme.   
    > So, i began planning out a petscii theme for my bbs to support   
    > them. I figured, by the time the devices ship, my board would be   
    > ready for them.   
      
    > During dinner in October, my wife suggested submitting a poll on a   
    > forum. I thought, 'what a brilliant idea.' Lemon64 has huge threads   
    > on this endeavor. Hundreds of thousands of views. i thought it would   
    > be a perfect place to go.   
      
    > So I put out the poll at the end of October and set it to go a month.   
    > With threads surrounding my post with views in the thousands, mine   
    > saw a meager number just under 200 views, three responses,   
    > and 11 votes. All this in a month on a very active forum.   
      
      
   it's worse than you think. the people who were interested weren't really    
   interested.  there's a lot of fake people that pretend to be into retro shit    
   but really are idiots who are not interested.   
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