I actually have a few. The majority are older than I am, though.

yeah i have a few too. i dont really consider that normal capacity.
a few years back we got hit with a big slump and it hasn't bounced back.

Yeah, far far from capacity. I seemed to get a little bump during COVID,
but that has not held up.

there's a lot of people in denial about that or just don't have a good enough rspective because they haven't been around a long time.

There are a few boards that do get a lot of traffic, although not full
capacity and maybe mostly other sysops. Maybe they are more l33t than most
of us. :D More power to them, though. Whatever is working for them, I wouldn't discourage.


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Re: SyncTERM website...
By: Dumas Walker to MRO on Sat Dec 16 2023 09:39 am

There are a few boards that do get a lot of traffic, although not full capacity and maybe mostly other sysops. Maybe they are more l33t than most of us. :D More power to them, though. Whatever is working for them, I wouldn't discourage.

i will say the asian bbses are still going strong.
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There are a few boards that do get a lot of traffic, although not full capacity and maybe mostly other sysops. Maybe they are more l33t than of us. :D More power to them, though. Whatever is working for them, wouldn't discourage.

i will say the asian bbses are still going strong.

I've tried many times to get an account on PTT2/3, but they require you to be a citizen and use 2factor auth - even with a translation software, I couldn't get in...

They used to have 300,000 ACTIVE users and have remained online this entire time with what I think we'd consider heavy usage even through today.

I wish I could get in... there was a great article a decade ago that displayed many of their art over the years - a PETSCII/ANSi style that was really impressive.

Felt like a corporate BBS, even bigger, with mods and co-sysops helping with the community.



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There are a few boards that do get a lot of traffic, although not full
capacity and maybe mostly other sysops. Maybe they are more l33t than most >> of us. :D More power to them, though. Whatever is working for them, I
wouldn't discourage.

i will say the asian bbses are still going strong.

Yeah, in the past few years there was discussion of one in Taiwan that is
very active, and about the software that powers it. I was curious so I
tried to check it out but it is very much all in Chinese. ;)

Back in the day, a network I was on (GT Power) had several nodes in Taiwan,
but they also mostly participated amongst themselves. The only time you
really realized they were around was when some of the users would post in
the equivalent of the FIDO Asia Link echo.


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Re: SyncTERM website...
By: Dumas Walker to MRO on Sun Dec 17 2023 10:57 am

There are a few boards that do get a lot of traffic, although not full
capacity and maybe mostly other sysops. Maybe they are more l33t than most >> of us. :D More power to them, though. Whatever is working for them, I
wouldn't discourage.

i will say the asian bbses are still going strong.

Yeah, in the past few years there was discussion of one in Taiwan that is very active, and about the software that powers it. I was curious so I tried to check it out but it is very much all in Chinese. ;)

Back in the day, a network I was on (GT Power) had several nodes in Taiwan, but they also mostly participated amongst themselves. The only time you really realized they were around was when some of the users would post in the equivalent of the FIDO Asia Link echo.

I used to just poke around on one of the popular ones but dude put in a kind of capcha thing. I think you have to visit a website and enter the code. i can't remember, it was a few years ago. Also i could barely make out what they were saying. I can make out some norwegian and german but taiwanese is beyond my abilities.
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j0HNNY a1PHA wrote to paulie420 <=-

Similar time-frames, my friend! I consider my "active" years to be 1992-1996. Retruned around 2018. It's a different time now, but still a blast.

Those were good times for BBSing. I called BBSes starting in 1987,
started my own in 1991, and during that period remember the BBS being
busy almost full-time until I got a BlueWave offline message reader door
in 1993 or so. Windows 95 came out and we were all in denial, but could
see the number of callers drop.

I went mail-only in 2001 and at that point my BBS had something like
74,000 calls in 10 years.



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Re: SyncTERM website...
By: MRO to echicken on Thu Dec 14 2023 02:09 am

Yeah, his website makes my eyes bleed. maybe that's why i never update.
it needs a marquee and under construction gif.

https://www.marvel.com/captainmarvel

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