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     Re: pros and cons   
     By: Morningstarr to All on Fri Dec 19 2025 02:12 pm   
      
    > Comparing Synchronet to Major BBS or Wildcat, other than price, how do they   
    > compare? What are sone pros and cons to the other two comoared to Synchronet   
    > and hiw do they differ?   
      
   MajorBBS is a "multi-user" BBS where as Wildcat and Synchronet are   
   "multi-node" BBSes. This used to be a bigger distinction before modern OSes   
   with multi-threading, but main thing is that MajorBBS can't (as far as I know)   
   directly run DOS door games. MajorBBS does have a lot of high quality   
   purpose-built add-ons/mods/games, but they're proprietary to MajorBBS and   
   won't run on any other platform/BBS.   
      
   Synchronet is open source, Wildcat is not and I don't think/know if MajorBBS   
   has actually gone open source yet or not. Anyone can find and fix bugs in   
   Synchronet or add features. Only Hector Santos can do that for Wildcat.   
      
   Synchronet has a standard integrated scripting language (ECMAScript, aka   
   JavaScript) where as Wildcat's scripting language is a proprietary dialect of   
   BASIC.   
      
   Synchronet is updated very frequently and development (aka alpha, beta)   
   versions/builds are available to everyone immediately. Not so with Wildcat.   
      
   I don't think either Wildcat or MajorBBS support all the different TCP/IP   
   application and transport/security protocols that Synchronet does. So, pretty   
   sure Synchronet leads with its Internet-integration.   
      
   Most other differences are going to be subjective: what do *you* and your   
   users like using better?   
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