Also, yes the BBS is still down. I’ve not got around to dealing with it between cutting the power, doing insurance shit, and having a mental breakdown.

Somebody is desperately trying to connect to the BBS by phone and honestly my internet is next level fucked right now making that a challenge

How I vision this - redirect oh.mg to a hosted website (rather than self hosting the WWW), om.gay becomes the gemini site, gopher / BBS / etc stays where it is. Awful branding but it works.

Working on the BBS today, and also starting to mirror out my journal to FTP / the BBS file area

I’ve done it, well most of it, the BBS’ domain has been changed to free.mg and next step is to get the static site hosting working (gotta do a ftp server) and kiln to run on a crontab

I had to shutdown the BBS server for about 15 minutes, something has started to seize a connection with the modem again

I’ve got to do some work on the BBS over the weekend, some of the mail areas are acting up probably riddled with file locks too. I’ve also got to reset the domain as well from bbs.ec to ix.oh.mg or maybe bbs.oh.mg, not decided

In the sea of bad news, there is good. When I setup the BBS machine in the new flat, the modem started to respond again, if the internet comes back then dial-up service can resume

BBS Offline due to internet feckup - OH.MG

I’m having a little play with hosting static sites for my bbs users, but using only gemini content, a site generator, and FTP. Not really sure how I’m going to do it, but I am.

I’ve also been playing with monitisation with Coil, if I can figure out how to hide my BBS’s web front end behind a Coil paywall I would consider opening it back up to the outside web. The amount of money raked in is still pretty small, but it would limit the server to genuine users if anything. Plus it helps a little towards the management of the web server, which is the most time intensive part of running a BBS

I totes need to work on my BBS having invested a lot of time with postfix getting email running

Redoin’ the BBS Login Screen - Awful ANSI screen ahoy

The File Area / FTP is b0rk3d - The joys of technology #bbs #bbsing #files

I’ve finally found out how to get mailcow to properly relay mail to bbs.ec without causing all kinds of havok. Next step is figure out how IP filtering works on Freebox and we’re there!

Moved the BBS website to gemini with some HTTP2Gemini voodoo, now mirroring the content over on the gopher server at gopher.is

The internet is quite intense in 2020 and I’ve got to do life things today. Already got the cat litter done, shopping next, laundry to come, and after I think working on the BBS

Oh lol the relay mx server hasn’t been responding for some time now. Good thing bbs.ec hasn’t sent an email out for a while 😅

Done a bit of a change to the bbs.ec site (in fairness also ec.je) to more align with hating WordPress and being less bulky. It’s now tilde’d #301Redirect and compiled with logarion

Miss Kaja’s been chilling in the sun bbs.yt/album/cat…

Living vicariously though that time before the lockdown, I got around to uploading some of the pix from Oslo www.bbs.yt/album/osl…

Got bored, stayed up late, and redid bbs.ec

I think my #BBS is having some issues with file locks again, I just had to restart it. So BBS.ec will be down for a couple minutes…

I decided to start a phlog on gopher.is, I also upload the writings to the Web using Markdown. Not really sure if this’ll be a thing I do regularly, but I’ll try.