TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A48
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On 03 Sep 2025, Scott Street said the following...
 
 SS> 
 SS> Greetings Al,
 SS> 
 SS> Thank you for confirming what I had observed.  I by no means wish to
 SS> disparage Mystic or G00r00.  He has written an amazing BBS system.  I
 SS> only hope that one of the take-aways he makes note of is to 'train'
 SS> another developer or two that can help him continue to develop Mystic in
 SS> a way that he'll be happy with.   Frankly, if he netmailed me today
 SS> giving me access to the source, but I am only to make bug and security
 SS> fixes;  I'd jump on it to see this fine product continue.
 SS> 

I didn't take it as disparaging him at all. So no worries there... :)

 SS> 
 SS> Alas, I have not found a product that I like nearly as much as Mystic. 
 SS> I like Mystic so much, I starting writing a clone in Python -- which I
 SS> recently stopped development on to go in a different direction.  I'm
 SS> actually going back to my original replacement idea of having a full web
 SS> app.
 SS> 

I have to agree, I ran a BBS back in the 80's and 90's and got the bug again
in 2018. I tried a few softwares setting them up, and after being away from
software for almost 25 years, I was shocked at how difficult some were to set
up. Nothing bad just my ignorance. Then I came upon Mystic, it set up in
minutes and I had a full BBS set up and running. Over the next several months,
I changed things as I learned how to modify this BBS software (I was one of
the programmers of Image BBS v2.0 for the Commodore 64 and am one of the
current programmers of v3.0 so I wanted something that made modifying simple).
This software was just that. Over the years I have done some things with it,
and still want to do more. Nothing wrong with writing a clone of Mystic. I
created a Theme for Mystic of my Image BBS software. :)

 SS> 
 SS> No need to be sorry for a complete answer.  I appreciated it.   I also
 SS> appreciate the time you took writing, and the tone of your message -
 SS> polite and factual.  I have received a few replies that take the
 SS> attitude of "Mystic is the best thing in the world since sliced bread,
 SS> how dare you dis our stuff!" (I paraphrase, but yeah, like that.)   And
 SS> I do believe Mystic is the best; that's why I choose it several years
 SS> ago; but it does not mean it can not get even better.  I sincerely hope
 SS> it does.

Thanks for understanding. And.. Don't let the sometimes nastiness bother you.
There are a lot of good people still in the BBS world who want to genuinely
help..


 SS> 
 SS> And I am sorry for my ranting.  You can imagine that I am a bit upset
 SS> with the thought of having to change the BBS, again, after the tons of
 SS> hours put into it -- thus, the idea of a web app which would leave the
 SS> Mystic setup as the 'Classic' BBS and the web app as the 'new' BBS.  For
 SS> the curious,  you all can see the initial website as
 SS> https://thedigitalpost.freeddns.org/
 SS> 
 SS> Cheers,

For the hell of it, got back to Mystic A48, that was the last stable version,
you might find your issues go away. g00r00 always puts the most stable version
on the regular Mystic website, the pre-alphas are test boards, I ran up that
tree for a while about 3 years ago, upgrading to each new pre-alpha and
sometimes running into issues. I stopped when A46 was released and only
started using the most stable versions. I am happy with A48. Everything you
have on your BBS will run fine on A48, if you are in a VM clone it and then
install A48 over your A49 run the update tools, and see how it runs. You might
be happy with the results..


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