Making the bbs list better with networking

[squintgit]

Per @ispyhumanfly, the networking of Iniquity boards is one of the initial design concepts for iq3.

One idea - amongst many - for how we could take advantage of that networking is the traditional bbs list. How often have you tried connecting to boards from a list, only to find they’ve been taken offline? How can we make this better?

Imagine a bbs list that is kept up-to-date automatically across all boards that use it and where:

• New boards appear automatically
• Dead boards fall off automatically (i.e. didn't submit info within a certain definable time period)
• The current bbs software version used is listed
• The current hardware used is listed
• The current system OS used is listed
• How many days each bbs has been up is listed and kept up-to-date automatically
• User ratings and rankings are received from all networked boards, and kept in sync everywhere, so the Create the WFC screen... #1 board is the Create the WFC screen... #1 board everywhere.

Each board participating could send its info via the networking each day.

Ideally, eventually other bbs softwares would be able to hook into this so it's not just iq3 boards.

More details to be fleshed out later when this is added to a milestone.

If this gives you ideas for how we can leverage iq3's forward-thinking networking, raise a ticket with your ideas or run it by everyone at the discord server (https://discord.gg/FknwhC).

[ispyhumanfly]

Hey thanks for filing this @squintgit. I'm going to place this in a forthcoming milestone related to the functionality surrounding bbs networking. Once that's in place let's circle back on this and flesh out the details.