On 18 May 2023 at 01:13a, hollowone pondered and said...

There is nothing sarcastic in my response, honestly, the best place to talk about BBSs and life I found are the BBSes themselves.

I agree

Point is that BBSes I use for messaging are great substitute of USENET I knew back in the 90s and early 00s. If I needed more IRC/chat formula
then I haven't found ideal place. I occasionally try some IRC servers to experience ghost towns like you said. I use discord with few servers related to retro computing, data hoarding, demo scene, dungeon crawler (blobber) games and BBSes (Araknet, BBS World).

I find it fine but not ideal. BBS orientated discords are ghost towns.
But perhaps this is good. if we diverted our time connecting to terminal and chatted on discord about BBSing instead... what's the point about BBSes in regards to keep the discussions on the boards.

I also really agree :)

To discuss life (any topic) the USENET formula on BBS FTNs good enough.
I don't find it necessary to look after another platform for it.

It's like you're reading my mind :)

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