• 26 Posts
  • 10 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: June 12th, 2023

help-circle




























  • As I write this reply, three buttons appear below the text dialog, “Reply,” “Cancel” and “Preview.” Not having deleted the text from dialog, nor committed to “Reply” or “Cancel,” if I now decide to view your profile on this page by clicking your user name, it has no effect. This appears true of all links except !main and those to off-site URLs, for example, the donation heart you mentioned.

    I also observe the “Cancel” button is not offered when typing a reply to your initial post.


  • i really miss the (relative) locality of the old BBS days

    I was recalling BBS days with @TurtleTourParty’s “99.9999% uptime is overrated” remark. We really have become spoiled in little better than a quarter century. The typical BBS had one phone line. Once you got past a busy signal, you had to economize your time online to give other users a chance. You’d install an offline reader to download new mail, disconnect, reply at leisure, and upload when you got back in.

    Aside from the local quality (enforced by a forgotten fact-of-life called “long distance charges,” defined as “not far outside city limits”), you never posted anything to discover someone else had replied simultaneously, because you were preventing them from doing so. I have fond memories of message boards that were games designed around this fact.

    Have not tried it yet, but this promises to recapture some feel of the “good ol’ days.” I wish it included a sound effect of that satisfying “connected” modem squawk when you fired it up.