Hi Ed,

> I came up with this idea of taking popular Fidonet conference names to the
> web. This
> is mainly an experiment to see if it's even possible.

> Members will have to register an account here, which only takes a valid
> email address
> to send your generated password to. Each member can personalize their
> member profile
> with an avatar and social links etc.

> The advantage of this is privacy, this system collects no personally
> identifiable
> data, with the exception to what members share online and in their
> profiles. Members
> can share links, photos, videos, etc. Also if this does take off and gets
> popular
> search bots will index the topics and recent posts etc. A twitter account
> can be set
> up to post new topics / replies. This site also has email notifications if
> you choose
> to follow a topic.

> The disadvantage is, no gating to the Fidonet Backbone. No QWK transfers.
> But it'ss
> easy enough to copy / paste a text post from a bbs to here.

> What do y'all think? An example web conference is here.
> https://blog.docsplace.org/forum/fidonews/bringing-fidonet-to-the-new-web/

Your example looks nice, I took a look at it yesterday.. I think it sounds
interesting at least, and might encourage people to see fidonet in a way they'd
enjoy... Good idea not to gate to the backbone since that's what most people
have a problem with (IIRC)... but did you intend to copy traffic from say a
particular area to it's similarly named area?

Take care,
Janis

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