Wiki edit of http://wiki.synchro.net/wiki:user:digital_man by digital
man: created an essay: Why BBS?
On 09/22/18, wiki.synchro.net pondered and said...
Wiki edit of http://wiki.synchro.net/wiki:user:digital_man by digital man: created an essay: Why BBS?
Great article Rob, thanks for posting it up :)
Thanks for reading!
I was a little torn about writing on it my wiki (with a web browser) rather than just posting it as a text message on my <gasp> BBS. So I figured I'd just do both. :-)
On 09/22/18, Digital Man pondered and said...
Thanks for reading!
I was a little torn about writing on it my wiki (with a web browser) rather than just posting it as a text message on my <gasp> BBS. So I figured I'd just do both. :-)
Heh... you might just inspire me to blog a bit also... it's been a while.
Heh... you might just inspire me to blog a bit also... it's been a while.
I was a little torn about writing on it my wiki (with a web browser) rather than just posting it as a text message on my <gasp> BBS. So I figured I'd just do both. :-)
Years ago, I used to use LiveJournal, which was a sort of blogging site with social networking. I usually had a hard time thinking of things I wanted to write about in it though. I've never really had ideas often enough, and I never repeatedly felt like I was inspired to blog to the world about stuff.
sys/sub-op. I suppose when I migrate to echicken's web UI I might feel more comfortable posting essays ("blogging") directly on the BBS. For now, I just copy/pasted into a local msgbase the text from the wiki page with minor format fix-ups.
Re: Re: [wiki.synchro.net] page added: wiki:user:digital_man
By: Digital Man to Paul Hayton on Sat Sep 22 2018 04:10 pm
I was a little torn about writing on it my wiki (with a web browser) rather than just posting it as a text message on my <gasp> BBS. So I figured I'd just do both. :-)
I suppose one good thing about posting it on the wiki is that it's a page that can be relative easily found, whereas a message in a BBS message base could eventually end up deleted when enough new messages are posted in the sub-board and old messages are cycled away.
with social networking. I usually had a hard time thinking of things I wanted to write about in it though. I've never really had ideas often enough, and I never repeatedly felt like I was inspired to blog to the world about stuff.
Re: Re: [wiki.synchro.net] page added: wiki:user:digital_man
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Sun Sep 23 2018 16:35:22
sys/sub-op. I suppose when I migrate to echicken's web UI I might feel more comfortable posting essays ("blogging") directly on the BBS. For now, I just copy/pasted into a local msgbase the text from the wiki page with minor format fix-ups.
I'm considering a page (and a textmode module) that would use a message base for blog posts. Original messages as posts, replies as comments. A bit of a twist on a normal message reader whether web-based or on the BBS.
(I got a start on it the other day, then delved into finding a way to present the content nicely in both contexts. Hence my messing around with markdown stuff.)
Ah, yeah, a markup/down would be good. I started a dokuwiki markup parser in JS once or twice, but the recursive nature of many of the tags stalled me.
On 09-23-18 20:21, echicken wrote to Digital Man <=-
I'm considering a page (and a textmode module) that would use a message base for blog posts. Original messages as posts, replies as comments.
A bit of a twist on a normal message reader whether web-based or on the BBS.
Sub-board messages can be flagged as non-purgeable (permanent) by a sys/sub-op. I suppose when I migrate to echicken's web UI I might feel more comfortable posting essays ("blogging") directly on the BBS. For now, I just copy/pasted into a local msgbase the text from the wiki page with minor format fix-ups.
Re: Re: [wiki.synchro.net] page added: wiki:user:digital_man
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Sun Sep 23 2018 04:35 pm
Sub-board messages can be flagged as non-purgeable (permanent) by a sys/sub-op. I suppose when I migrate to echicken's web UI I might feel more comfortable posting essays ("blogging") directly on the BBS. For now, I just copy/pasted into a local msgbase the text from the wiki page with minor format fix-ups.
Ah, I didn't know sub-board messages can be flagged as permanent. That's a cool feature.
Re: Re: [wiki.synchro.net] page added: wiki:user:digital_man
By: Digital Man to echicken on Sun Sep 23 2018 17:32:04
Ah, yeah, a markup/down would be good. I started a dokuwiki markup parser in JS once or twice, but the recursive nature of many of the tags stalled me.
I looked at a few markdown specs and then decided to go with something barebones to meet my needs. It does all of the basic stuff: headings, lists, tables, blockquote, horizontal rules, links, images, bold text. One custom change is italics, where the format is _ctext_, where 'c' is a colour indicator a la ctrl-a codes (on the web it just shows up italicized).
The goal isn't to get too fancy, just to provide a way to format content for both the web and the terminal in one shot. When viewed on the web, it looks like normal-ish web content; when viewed on the BBS, it can have some special formatting.
Um... so _bBlue_ would be italiced in HTML and blue in a terminal? The underscores are sometimes used to denote an underlined word. In dokuwiki, double-slashes are used to indicate an italicized word. One problem with
using an alphabetic char is that'll baffle spell-checkers (e.g. the one built into your browser). Probably best to avoid using alphabetic chars for your markup syntax.
Yeah, we have a couple of attempts to do that in CVS now (e.g. html2asc.js) - but a wiki or markdown-like markup language would be better to have.
I'd love to have a (working) dokuwiki syntax parser for the terminal server, that way all the wiki pages could be nicely viewable over Telnet/SSH/RLogin. :-)
I'll see if I can line this up with at least some basic dokuwiki markdown syntax for now. With all of the links in those pages you'd probably want some kind of 'wiki browser' module ... or just a web browser.
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