I mentioned in a previous post [1] that it will be 
neat to watch as pubnix users continue to develop 
the social tools used by the pubnix community 
itself.  Below is a list of some software and 
features I've seen available on pubnixes and 
pubnix-like systems recently.  And some are not 
written yet; just concepts that would be neat if 
they did exist.

Note that I am a gopher newbie and minimalist, 
so although I am aware of several pubnix-user 
developed gopher utilities, I don't list them 
here.

I believe that several of the programs below 
were written by smj on SDF, so rather than 
repeating his name over and over below, I've 
*'ed those items.

~ INTER-USER COMMUNICATION ~

notes* - leave notes that individual other users 
         will see on login.

messages* - send direct messages to other online 
         users.  somewhat redundant with standard 
         'write' program.

anonymous community journal - like 
         "happening"* on SDF.

chat -   lightweight alt. to IRC. e.g. schat on 
         Zaibatsu, chat on colorfield.space, party 
         on grex, or even com* on SDF.

bbs -    e.g. telem (solderpunk), gboard 
         (tfurrows), SDF's bboard, or tilde's 
         bbj (desvox).

~ NOVELTY ~

oneliner* - enter a single line of text (a witty 
         saying, typically) or view a randomly 
         selected line contributed by others.

tilde-train - a variation on "sl" (steam 
         locomotive) that builds a train by 
         adding cars that users define in 
         their .choochoo files. (written by 
         yours truly, which is why it is so 
         poorly coded...)

novelty irc bots - Many, many, many. Some are 
         useful, some are fun, some are downright 
         annoying (if overused).

## This novelty section could be gigantic.  In some 
ways, this is some of the most exciting elements to 
pubnixes, the engineer's playground of digital toys.  
I'll cut this short with elipses and make a 
dedicated "pubnix novelty programs" another time...

~ GOVERNANCE ~

voting tool - solderpunk mentioned this concept on 
         gboard a while back. I don't know if such a 
         tool actually exists.

vouch system - allow users to voice confidence that 
         a new, unprivileged user is trustworthy and 
         should be given full user rights 
         (blinkenshell, presumably written by 
         independence.)

on-boarding quiz - Part of automated new user 
         sign-up process. ensures that applicants 
         have read and understood the code of 
         conduct and related 
         information.(Blinkenshell, presumably 
         written by independence.)

invite code generator - Allow users to vouch 
         for and invite others (for bigger 
         systems, obviously).

~ PUBLISHING/BLOGGING ~

command line blog - I would love to see one that is 
         .plan or .project based, as someone on 
         circumlunar.space mentioned recently.  I 
         believe tilde.town's Feels Engine can do 
         this (and more, e.g. post to html), but I 
         haven't used it yet.

~ INFO ~

who/last - List who is online, potentially what 
         they're doing, and the last login time for 
         people not currently online.  This would be 
         a combined version of 'w' or 'who' and 
         'last' commands.

sysinfo - pubnix users are geeks, usually. Give them 
         a command that summarizes system resources, 
         load, and other interesting bits.

--

This gopher post will be a work in progress for a 
little while.  I'd like to think more about the 
categorization and about the criteria for what is on 
the list and off the list (e.g. this does not 
include tools like "finger", a classic and still 
useful tool for looking up info on other users).

And, this list is in no way intended to suggest that 
a standard set of tools should be used across 
pubnix-ville.  The opposite, in fact -- variety is 
mroe interesting.  This list is just intended to 
remark on how much is going on already, and to 
suggest a few tools that would be nice to see built.

[1] 
gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/~cmccabe/06-hexachlorophene.txt