I love this and I've been thinking of something along these lines myself. Having an all-text site with a mouse-driven interface seems somehow wrong though.
I guess I'm just used to having things rescan whenever I hit a command. More BBSes please! Legend of Red Dragon!!
Who needs this when you can
telnet telehack.com
It kind of reminds me of a usenet newsgroup without a newsreader ... everything old is new again.
Are the pins sent by email via an SMS gateway? If so, why not just let people sign up with their email address?
I'd like to join in on the fun, but not with my personal phone number.
Seems the nginx server is already busted - 504s all over...
I like the design
I feel like I'm missing something..
Make sure you don't post any ascii butts as this is a real, serious community. Your posts will be deleted and your account will be banned...
This literally changes everything.
what a big and beautiful system!
love it :)
It's text-only like hacker news... but for useless chatter.
Bonus: doesn't work without a trackable, paying subscription to a cell carrier (some workarounds like Google Voice exist).
The phone number auth is hilarious, this bbs doesn't have A phone number, this bbs has YOUR phone number!
(edited to add, and it needs Tradewars 2000 as a door game)