Places like this seem to do it automatically: http://www.synchro.net/sbbslist.html (lots of fsxnet represented

Thats true, but in order to keep it more interested for the plebs, I was trying to avoid just having a page full of "top" menus. You're right a screen shot will do. But you still need something, the bar is pretty low, but not having anything is a bit of a deal breaker.

Given that this is a "webring" ideally the landing page for the webring would be an about page for your BBS or perhaps a login page (fTelnet or similar). The



















































































































































































































































snychro list is perhaps not the best one out there, but I'm trying to avoid the



















































































































































































































































repetitive minimum info I'm seeing there for a number of systems.

Not sure about the automagically bit. You have to upload something to the Telnet guide. IPTIA looks more like the result I'm hoping for, but with more a banner effect, hoping to get an interesting looking name, into about the same amount of realestate.

Spec


--- SuperBBS v1.17-3 (Eval)
* Origin: (21:3/101)

Spectre -- fantastic job!!

Ahhh meh, it works thats about it.

We could put up a little web form, let people self-add, maybe keep
in a NoSQL db, could even expose as an API service? Unless you are
already using a database locally. Having the nodelist as an API could
mean other developers could do stuff with it as well.

Its sitting on to of a simple 3 field SQL table at the moment, but if anyone is


















































































































































































































































capable of using any other db format it ought to be simple enough for them to change.

And you lost me after that....

I am actually working on a little python script that grabs the
nodelist and converts it to JSON (for another project). We could
then let people "claim" their node and add their own details...
Just spitballin'!!

Nice theory.. no idea how it'd work though.

The other project: kind of similar to your webring idea, but it was
more about creating a web-based terminal address book for fsxNet
-- just a way to browse the nodelist with embeded fTelenet,
like you would with SyncTerm. Very similar to Rick Parrish's
'myftelnet' - http://my.ftelnet.ca/

The connect from list portion which presently just dumps a text list of db entries is meant to do something like that. I just haven't gotten to the nuts and bolts of it. Ideally I think it would require the fTelnet window to be setup at each BBS' website.

I'm running my own proxy, client/embed code that sort of replicates
the address book functionality. Python code will keep the nodelist
current and weed out inactives. The only problem is IP blacklisting.
Even during my tests I'm getting added to blacklists, every sysop
would need to whitelist the IP, etc.

What are you getting blacklisted for? It'd have to be repeats or frequency, perhaps individuals could add some kind of account like webring as a guest account... so it'll log in, and you know its up. The other problem appears to be not every BBS has a website/page. Working off the nodelist you'd be blindly accepting they have one.

Anyway, happy to share code/ideas if it helps!!

Shrug, you're so far past my abilities its not funny :)

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--- SuperBBS v1.17-3 (Eval)
* Origin: (21:3/101)

HAHAHAHAHA! You wasted no time, sir!

Well it went from just showing off what I had, to having its own name and go all by itself really...

I sent you an email with my info.

Done and dusted!

Spec


--- SuperBBS v1.17-3 (Eval)
* Origin: (21:3/101)

2 - https://magickabbs.com/bbs/

Done but not dusted.... when this url opens in the webring iframe, I get a spangly looking page with a load of yellow url's at the bottom and a broken image.

Quite different to if I pop it up in a regular browser window.

Looks like a library of the esoteric as opposed to HappyLand.

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--- SuperBBS v1.17-3 (Eval)
* Origin: (21:3/101)

2 - https://magickabbs.com/bbs/

Done but not dusted.... when this url opens in the webring iframe, I get a spangly looking page with a load of yellow url's at the bottom and a broken image.

For some reason, the iframe is loading https://magicka.com/bbs rather

Thanks, rectified.

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*** THE READER V4.50 [freeware]

--- SuperBBS v1.17-3 (Eval)
* Origin: Scrawled in haste at The Lower Planes (21:3/101)

Alright, I broke and had a crack at the PHP code.

I believe its fit for open testing at this stage, although the connect from list option is still incomplete.

http://ghostwheel.zapto.org/webring

If you want to add yourself to the webring DB, I need the following.
* BBS Name
* complete URL to your BBS Website
* Some kind of JPG logo, preferably banner, so wider than tall and




















































































































































































































































something that scales down well.

Send to sysop@tlp.zapto.org

NOTES:
1/ Its using deprecated PHP methods to access SQL.
2/ Its about the limit of my expertise.
3/ The PHP code seems to work, but is probably spaghetti
4/ I'll pop the code up at http://tlp.zapto.org/hidden_stuff/webring.zip
feel free to rebuild it or optimise it.

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--- SuperBBS v1.17-3 (Eval)
* Origin: (21:3/101)

Nicely done.

Thank-you

I like the "Select from List". But a matrix or grid design is
better. Hence.. "Select from MATRIX" ???? LOL

The text list was the initial iteration before I got the images rolling out nicely. I find PHP a mousetrap trying to get all the " and ' in the right places

It's really nice to see the icon/screen shot of the bbses all at once
like that.

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properly. At the moment if you don't have a logo you can't be displayed on that particular page.

If I use the same layout on the connect to page the same will have to apply, although at the moment being a text list, everyone in the DB is on it.

Thanks for your thoughts.

Spec


--- SuperBBS v1.17-3 (Eval)
* Origin: (21:3/101)