Subj : Re: pros and cons
To   : Morningstarr
From : Gamgee
Date : Sat Dec 20 2025 08:00 pm

-=> Morningstarr wrote to nelgin <=-

 >   Re: Re: pros and cons
 >   By: Morningstarr to nelgin on Sat Dec 20 2025 08:05:48

 > I looked at several options before going with Synchronet. Then I ditched it.
 > After a few years I revisited all the options and still want with Synchronet
 > and here I am some 8 years later. I know others have been running it longer.

 > The plus side is that it's highly configurable and the downside is there's a
 > learning curve if you don't know JavaScript, and if you do, you may have to
 > unlearn some stuff that's currently not supported.

 > The other plus side is that support is incredibly easy to get from seasoned
 > users and Digital Man who is very accessible and willing to help out.

 Mo> Well I used to run a board and got pretty good at Baja. JavaScript went
 Mo> right over my head. I wonª€™t run another board again, especially
 Mo> synchronet. I would ask a question and get ripped a new one. People
 Mo> would be mean to me and always, always, said read the documentation.
 Mo> lol, I read the documentation.  I probably read it more than most,
 Mo> spent days and nights. Sometimes the documentation went over my head
 Mo> and when I would ask. Certain sysops would rip in to me. They are still
 Mo> around actually. The only two that were nice to me was rob and night
 Mo> fox. Heaven forbid you forget a coma or accidentally used bad grammar.
 Mo> It turned me off from the whole scene and I have been away since 2013.

Uh-huh.  I suspect there's more to the story than that.

 Mo> Besides, I donª€™t have a pc anymore lol. Canª€™t afford one and I also
 Mo> grown to hate windows or anything made by Microsoft. Yeah I could use
 Mo> Linux or Mac, but Iª€™m not buying anymore or building anymore
 Mo> computers. Too much trouble. The last pc I built had a bad gpu. I send
 Mo> that thing back probably ten times and got the same results, screen
 Mo> artifacts. All I have now is game consoles and an iPad.

Okay, so with all that..... why are you in here asking about which BBS 
software is "best", when you don't intend to run one and don't even own 
a computer?

I hereby dub you "The Hundred-Thousandaire"...  ;-)



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