Re: last message for tonight
By: Night_Spider to Nightfox on Wed Dec 03 2025 07:06 pm

Thanks for your advice Night Fox, I'm actually on an iphone haha i had to alter the collumns to fit 80 collumns because i couldnt access slyedit before initially, ahah but yeah im shattered abit so gonna go to bed, hmm

BBSes are better on a laptop or desktop using a comm program like syncterm or netrunner.

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Re: last message for tonight
By: Denn to Night_Spider on Wed Dec 03 2025 11:26 pm

oh i realise that a laptop is far better than a iphone lol, its not that i dont have a laptop its just im at one end of a country n my laptops are literally at lands end, i gotta wait a couple weeks to get them sent up to not that it matters but alongside my consoles and other effects ,,, but yeah iphone huh i get it ill struggle with default settings and obviously the ease of use, tho given my nature if i dont out an effort in now ill probably itll be harder when i do have my effects delievered so i figured laptop or not ill try my best ill put an effort in, so im looking to sync my syncronet up like with my email but im under the impression emails on the usual ibternet isnt the same context as emails on bbbs, and im abit confused how to do it as im trying to register on other bbs platform but hitting a wall with mybemail doesnt exist apparently

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Re: last message for tonight
By: Night_Spider to Nightfox on Wed Dec 03 2025 07:06 pm

to late oh yeah was gonna ask if your signature was a bbs or like ya email on here or what?

The BBS you see there is my BBS (which is where I'm posting from). And that's not a signature, that's the origin line. Dove-Net is networked, accessed by a lot of different BBSes, so the origin line is useful so people know which BBS it came from.

Nightfox

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Re: last message for tonight
By: Night_Spider to Denn on Thu Dec 04 2025 05:14 am

oh i realise that a laptop is far better than a iphone lol, its not that i

As I said in a previous message, it's good to quote the part of the message you're replying to so that it's easier to follow the conversation.

If someone replies to me without quoting, sometimes it feels like the message is out of left field, and I'm less likely to reply to it if I can't follow the conversation.

Nightfox

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Re: last message for tonight
By: Accession to Nightfox on Thu Dec 04 2025 04:15 pm

If someone replies to me without quoting, sometimes it feels like the
message is out of left field, and I'm less likely to reply to it if I can't
follow the conversation.

I would imagine quoting on an Iphone is probably harder than using the BBS itself. ;)

Maybe, although (at least using SlyEdit) you can type /q and press enter to open the quote window and then select a quote, and press ESC to close the quote window. I doubt that would be much harder than anything else using an iPhone.

Nightfox

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Re: last message for tonight
By: Accession to Nightfox on Thu Dec 04 2025 07:30 pm

Maybe, although (at least using SlyEdit) you can type /q and press enter to
open the quote window and then select a quote, and press ESC to close the
quote window. I doubt that would be much harder than anything else using
an iPhone.

You should try it once, and let us all know how it looks.

Well I've used my BBS on my smartphone before, so I'm familiar with it already. It's just a lot smaller, and has the virtual keyboard.. Those are reasons why I prefer not to use a BBS on a smartphone.

Nightfox

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Re: last message for tonight
By: Nightfox to Accession on Fri Dec 05 2025 09:00 am

You should try it once, and let us all know how it looks.

Well I've used my BBS on my smartphone before, so I'm familiar with it alrea

I do it all the time ;).. But specifically with BBSes that are awesome to use at non-standard screen sizes, which means I don't HAVE to be at 80x25. I use Termux (Android) and iSH (iPhone) to connect to Level 29 and Mutiny:Community.

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Re: last message for tonight
By: Lordwoodoo to Nightfox on Sat Dec 06 2025 05:51 am

Well I've used my BBS on my smartphone before, so I'm familiar with it
already. It's just a lot smaller, and has the virtual keyboard.. Those
are reasons why I prefer not to use a BBS on a smartphone.

You could always connect a Bluetooth keyboard, for example, but well, same thing... I'm not a fan of virtual keyboards on phones or any other device for that matter.

That said, on a decent tablet with a mini keyboard (or not), it could be fun?!

Maybe if I had a tablet. I usually just use BBSes on my desktop PC though, as I'd prefer not to use my phone.

Nightfox

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phigan wrote to Nightfox <=-

I do it all the time ;).. But specifically with BBSes that are awesome
to use at non-standard screen sizes, which means I don't HAVE to be at 80x25. I use Termux (Android) and iSH (iPhone) to connect to Level 29
and Mutiny:Community.

It didn't even occur to me until recently that BBSes would format for
different term sizes than 80x25; I'd used that so long in console
sessions that that's what you did.

I do like 80x43 - no font twiddling, just more real estate.



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Re: last message for tonight
By: Lordwoodoo to Nightfox on Sat Dec 06 2025 05:51 am

That said, on a decent tablet with a mini keyboard (or not), it could be fun

I find that an 8" tablet is just the right size.

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phigan wrote to Lordwoodoo <=-

That said, on a decent tablet with a mini keyboard (or not), it could be fun

I find that an 8" tablet is just the right size.

That's what she said.




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Try muffinterm. It's in the App Store and it works pretty well. I tried to
post a message earlier using it and it wouldn't allow me to save it because
the editor needs to use control key. Most synchronet boards have a web client side/web page. You can use that to send messages instead of using a terminal client. It's a really nice feature. I am growing fond of it too!

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Re: last message for tonight
By: Morningstarr to Night_Spider on Sun Dec 14 2025 05:17 pm

Try muffinterm. It's in the App Store and it works pretty
well. I tried to post a message earlier using it and it wouldn't
allow me to save it because the editor needs to use control key.
Most synchronet boards have a web client side/web page. You can use
that to send messages instead of using a terminal client. It's a
really nice feature. I am growing fond of it too!

you can use the synchronet default internal editor (not fsedit) and use /s

the bbs might have other editors that save the msg with /s or some other command
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