Subj : Is binkp/d's security model kaputt?
To   : Vk3jed
From : Oli
Date : Wed Dec 22 2021 10:19 am

Vk3jed wrote (2021-12-19):

 V> I feel opening things up too much to the masses could kill the goose that
 V> laid our golden egg.  Look at how things went downhill with mass access
 V> to social media,

You mean like Fidonet in the 90s? ;-)

(thank god it was killed by the stupid ones on the top and the Internet)

 JD>> BBSs went through a modernisation when the Internet came along. And
 JD>> hell, even the online web based forums suffer now because everyone
 JD>> just wants to use Facebook.

 V> Online web forums just suck, I never got into them, because of their poor
 V> performance and navigation.

Have you ever used a web forum that uses XenForo, Discourse, Flarum, NodeBB? Much better than any BBS, echomail, Facebook, reddit, ...

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