Welcome!

[Jim]

Hey, gang. Welcome to the forum!

For right now, the board can be read by the public. Keep that in mind as you kick the tires.

[jims-bbs.xjbmp]

Hey, Jim

Looking forward to spending some time on this board. Good luck with it, and I hope it grows big time. I'll give you a hint as to who I am, if you have not figured it out yet. It's 92 degrees and climbing where I live. It's a dry heat...

[Jim]

Hey, Jim

Looking forward to spending some time on this board. Good luck with it, and I hope it grows big time. I'll give you a hint as to who I am, if you have not figured it out yet. It's 92 degrees and climbing where I live. It's a dry heat...

I'm good at guessing-games. Are you a goat?

[jims-bbs.xjbmp]

You got it! Just like old school AI ...

[BKimball]

Hi Jim!

Cool to see another web bbs in town! I am surprised you didn't write your own, but hey, phpBBS is well known so not a bad choice, other than as a .NET Developer I don't have much love for PHP.

Shameless self-promotion for mine (Runs in my basement in Little Italy Omaha): https://MessageBase.net/ and this one has "door games" at https://MessageBase.net/GameZone/

Ben

[BKimball]

Oh, one thing I just noticed trying to reconnect: https://jims-bbs.com/ just says "Coming Really Soon". Looks like I have to go to https://jims-bbs.com/bbs/ to get back here.

[Jim]

Hi Jim!

Cool to see another web bbs in town! I am surprised you didn't write your own, but hey, phpBBS is well known so not a bad choice, other than as a .NET Developer I don't have much love for PHP.

Shameless self-promotion for mine (Runs in my basement in Little Italy Omaha): https://MessageBase.net/ and this one has "door games" at https://MessageBase.net/GameZone/

Ben

I'm afraid that I don't have the play-time to build a decent one from scratch (yet!) And, I'd like to self-host but I'm not quite ready to do that. I have been a sysadmin on a couple of phpBB boards so I'm familiar with the gotchas and all of that.

Regarding PHP ... well, it's ubiquitous so it's really easy to find cheap hosting and to set one of these up.

I'll have to give your BBS a try.

Oh, one thing I just noticed trying to reconnect: https://jims-bbs.com/ just says "Coming Really Soon". Looks like I have to go to https://jims-bbs.com/bbs/ to get back here.

Yeah, I want to fly under the radar of the search-engines for now while I try to build up a user-base of real people and not scammers.

[BKimball]

Hi Jim!

Yeah, I want to fly under the radar of the search-engines for now while I try to build up a user-base of real people and not scammers.

Good point, I have to pluck autogenerated users from messagebase quite often. And all the "funny" scans trying to get access to my code by looking for other weak points in software, thinking I'm running WordPress or phpBB.

[Jim]

Yeah, I want to fly under the radar of the search-engines for now while I try to build up a user-base of real people and not scammers.

Good point, I have to pluck autogenerated users from messagebase quite often. And all the "funny" scans trying to get access to my code by looking for other weak points in software, thinking I'm running WordPress or phpBB.

Yeah, you get that if you stand up a static site with a "coming soon!" page, too. The latest ones I've seen are using weird combinations of characters to form meaningless words ... presumably to probe for secret folders.

[Cam]

This is really cool Jim, love to see it!

[Jim]

Thanks, Cam!