Subj : Re: Running a BBS
To   : tassiebob
From : Avon
Date : Mon Jun 19 2023 09:11 pm

On 19 Jun 2023 at 05:39p, tassiebob pondered and said...
 
 ta>  Av>  Mi> They come and they go.
 ta>  Av> 
 ta>  Av> You're not wrong, just so long as others come along :)
 ta> I guess it's not all that surprising - there's a level of commitment
 ta> required to run a BBS and let's face it, not too many users 'call' BBS's
 ta> these days :-(

You're right about 'users' of BBS it's really a hobby driven by sysops who want to run one, had run one, never run one etc.  But there are some who connect to BBS as just users, and indeed some BBS are visited by a bunch of other sysops on a fairly regular basis.

 ta> So if someone's in it for the users, then it's not hard to see why they
 ta> might get disheartened and move on to other things.

I'd agree.

 ta> I'd love to find that silver bullet that draws at least some reasonable
 ta> number of users back to BBS's again.

Perhaps the ongoing dissatisfaction with social media may help? I think it is to a degree. But more so with BBS/retro stuff as an escape from the content and algorithmic oversights of social, rather than as a total replacement for it.

That said, I do enjoy echomail chatting the most out of all the stuff I can do in BBSing, as I can do it at my own pace and in a way that is not visual and multimedia overload.

Kerr Avon [Blake's 7] 'I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid and I'm not going'
avon[at]bbs.nz | bbs.nz | fsxnet.nz 

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