Robbie wrote:
> The Q's!
> 
> - There doesn't seem to be a ton of examples in the wild, or
> tutorial-esque material, of how to do theming/programming of command
> shells. Does that mean most Synchronet sysops just run the 
> default/included shells? Has anyone compiled tips/tricks beyond what's
> in the doc wiki?

As someone once told me, every Synchronet BBS looks like every other
Synchronet BBS :) That said, quite a few people have made up their own menus. 

Most of what you need is already included in the menus, you just need to
change the key bindings as required.

> - Baja vs. javascript. My understanding is baja approach (compiled) is
> more comprehensive than the js approach. Any recos here?

You can pretty much do anything in JS that you can do in Baja. Sometimes more.
I use a mixture of both for my menus, mainly because I just adapted each menu
to suit. I think the idea is to eventually phase out Baja so you may just want
to go with JS anyway.

> - I see there is one xtrn-based message viewer (DDMsgReader). Looks
> pretty cool. But is there another (relatively easy) way to modify message
> read headers/footers without go full external? Could be that I am just
> really used to FSRs and need to get used BBSs that don't have that :)

There may be some option. I'm not a big fan of editing someone elses message.
If you use msglist.js you can use O for the operatior menu and alter flags.

> - It looks like there is a ton of potential for progammatic customization
> via shells/events/etc. Any Synchronet sysops who have transformed their
> BBS in unique ways?

You may want to download SyncTerm and go through some of the boards that are
listed. Many of them are unique.

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