Subj : Re: Is binkp/d's security model kaputt?
To   : Oli
From : Vk3jed
Date : Thu Dec 23 2021 08:34 pm

-=> On 12-22-21 10:19, Oli wrote to Vk3jed <=-

 Ol> Vk3jed wrote (2021-12-19):

 V> I feel opening things up too much to the masses could kill the goose that
 V> laid our golden egg.  Look at how things went downhill with mass access
 V> to social media,

 Ol> You mean like Fidonet in the 90s? ;-)

Actually it was less the users that killed Fidonet, more those with some degree
of power, methinks. ;)  But personally, I had no issues on Fidonet, and hung
out in some good echos. :)

 Ol> (thank god it was killed by the stupid ones on the top and the
 Ol> Internet)

:)

 V> Online web forums just suck, I never got into them, because of their poor
 V> performance and navigation.

 Ol> Have you ever used a web forum that uses XenForo, Discourse, Flarum,
 Ol> NodeBB? Much better than any BBS, echomail, Facebook, reddit, ...

Discourse, yep.  But I find web forums unvariably feature clumsy navigation and
sluggish performance.



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