> 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's
> > 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?

Hi Janis, I do not presently have a way to gate the web bbs mail into
Fidonet and
don't think that is a good idea anyway. But an existing topic could be copy
/ pasted
to start a discussion.

I'm thinking the new web could be used in this method to connect old
Fidonet members
again in a new way. It would require real names only just like Fidonet.

My idea is to use existing Fido conference names, and will add conferences
as
requested. This software even supports email subscriptions and reply via
email
option. This alone makes it really easy to use a smartphone or tablet to
carry on a
conversation with others. 

Regards, Doc