Sticking to the easiest course of action, which is almost always what I do, I was chewing over how to organise a script to drive the Webring and I'm coming up short...

The simplest and it seems most wasteful would be to generate new links in the last, next and random links each time a page is loaded. When you click on a link you pass back the number for the DB entry... But this means reloading the whole page each time.

I s'pose the links could be placed in their own small iframe and just have the contents updated... shrug...


Alternatively I have been considering the links could be a simple + or - and something for random. Which the script would use to calculate the next appropriate page. Sounds good in theory, but I've no idea how you would keep the server side data about who is looking at what page to track what the links should be. The script is going to have to have some way to remember what page any given IP/Session is looking at, in order to calculate the next.

Spec

PS: I Should see if I can find the remants of some webring pages and see what the links look like.

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Last, next, and random certainly works and is the method I've found employed on every webring I've seen. One could easily drive
themselves to madness applying logic to next; alphabetically,
theme, popularity, location (the mind is boggled)... To my mind,
low tech is the best tech here. Add boards to the bottom as they
come onboard and use a client side pointer to next.

Well the plan so far has been, first in, is first into the DB no sorting or anything else going on. The attachment I have to using the + or - as the links























































































































































































































































really stems from not having to push the menu changes to the client. But the difficulty level seems outrageous.

So it looks like stick with the client side and push the menu changes.

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I was thinking about this yesterday. I don't know if this is too
similar to what you are talking about with the web ring, but I'm also super interested in lowering the barrier to get people into BBSs.
And web-based telnet (ftelnet, VTX, etc.) seems like the most

Well webring is usually just pushing pages... but I was considering some kind of terminal in which you could select the BBS to connect to from a dropdown list of some kind... drop down might not work if it gets to long...

It might be easier if each BBS had their own set up locally. Then you can just point a link to the remote/local ftelnet and be pretty sure it'll work.

I like ftelnet, and I do have the proxy running locally so I don't have to scoot out across the net somewhere just to come back again. Its been a while since I looked at ftelnet, but it may be you have to have a basic setup for each BBS and can pass the BBS name as setup selection... shrug just a thought. Not sure about the proxy though...

Spec

PS: No idea what VTX is..


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