MIGRATION TO MYSTIC FROM SYNCHRONET
(Posted 2016-08-03 12:12:29 by corey_reichle)

So, I decided to migrate from Synchronet to Mystic BBS.  The primary
reason:  Ease of customization and FTN.  While, I do realize that
Synchronet is highly customizable, and can handle FTN networks, both seemed
rather arduous to do.

Menus are easily customizable in Mystic, even without an ASCII editor,
whereas in Sync, it's all done via editing two text files.  I'm positive
for someone with years of experience with the package, it's easy enough.
 For a noob to it, it is daunting.

But, I was able to handle that.  I can deal with complex configs.  However,
I was completely lost with FTN.  There's no complete documentation for it
with Sync.  However, there's a really nice video tutorial for Mystic.

So, in the span of time I spent trying to get Sync to work with FTN, I was
able to get Mystic installed, configured, and connected to multiple
networks.

The one part that was nice with Sync was the inbuilt, fully featured SMTP
server.  Mystic has one, but it's only for sending intra-bbs messages, and
doesn't offer users an email address.  Hopefully, this will be resolved
eventually.

So, the new BBS is up and running. Check it out over at http://solarpi.net
:)

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There are 2 comments on this post:

Comment #1 by Richard Miles ( rmiles7721@gmail.com ) on 2016-08-11 02:09:55
How did you go about migrating the user base, as in passwords? I've just
recently moved to Mystic and wouldn't mind being able to migrate the system
over.

Comment #2 by corey_reichle ( corey.reichle@gmail.com ) on 2016-08-31
13:59:52
I did a manual migration.  Didn't have the time/knowledge to figure out how
to automate it, although, it seems like it should be rather simplistic.


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