Subj : Re: fsxNet Feedback
To   : All
From : Avon
Date : Sun May 09 2021 01:51 pm

On 08 May 2021 at 09:23a, Avon pondered and said...
 
 Av> Many thanks to everyone who took the time to reply to this thread. If you
 Av> have not yet, do feel free to do so.
 Av> 
 Av> It's Sat morning here and I have a full day coming up. What I am
 Av> planning to do next is to try and spend some time tonight to write up
 Av> all the feedback and then post a summary of it here to ensure I have
 Av> captured the main themes etc. correctly.

I'm a day late - Saturday turned out to be busy... and today is not much
better :)

Here's the summary of what we've put forward thus far. I've tried to capture
things underneath certain themes/headings and where there have been similar
"I agree" comments by others I have added a +1 to some statements.

Have a read through and if anyone spots something I have misinterpreted or
misunderstood please let me know.

If there's anything missing from this brain dump of feedback etc. also let me
know.

After a few more days to ensure this is correct my next steps will be to
respond to it all and try to put some order around what we can work on
addressing first, second etc.

Thanks again for taking the time to respond to the request for feedback. It's
really appreciated.

Best, Paul


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General Feedback
================

fsxNet has grown, not a bad thing but at times feels less close knit
(+1 agree - think it's not a bad thing)

Things are going well.

Enjoying reading echomail and nothing else to add.

More beer.

Nice network, welcoming to people, not narrow minded nor overly strict with
rules etc.

Like it a lot.

One of the more active networks.

A great net, has been since joined it.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. It ain't broke.

Echomail
========

Is there a need for separate BBS echos? Could they be merged
to one? (+1 agree).

Could use more echomail areas, not a huge number but more than we have at
present where we can talk about other things (+1 nice to see gen echo split
up into a few more).

Could we have other echos to cover non-technical hobbies / projects?
Add a retro computing echo? (+1 agree).

Gaming related echos? (+1 agree).

Long names for echomail tags (+1 agree - 35 avail chars, let's use them).

Low echomail echos are OK, quite like the separation of BBS info, good idea
to keep them or at least the Mystic echo.

fsxNet seems largely technical and lacking an entertainment
sort of echo (+1 agree).

Better message threading for posts would be good. Is there a problem in
fsxNet FTN?

Discussions in fsxNet
=====================

The 'no politics / religion' request in fsxNet housekeeping is working well.

Discussions on politics and religion have led to some clashes in the past.

Perhaps more moderation required / designated moderators (HUB admins?) to
hand out reminders about re bad behaviour.

I wish people would update the subjects on their messages, would make
following stuff easier, I'm guilty of doing this too.

Security / Privacy
==================

Binkp secure encryption for all hubs.

Better privacy.

SSH officially supported.

SSH for specific echos.

Documentation
=============

Docs for InterBBS games. especially Synchronet BBS setup would be great.

File Bases / Distribution
=========================

FDN for gaming related files (+1 agree).

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