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The Shadow
Registered: Oct 2007
Posts: 304 |
Adding A BBS Section...
There have been discussions in the forums, in the past, about adding a BBS section to the CSDb. Perff told me that he would consider adding a BBS section when he finds the time. He does not know much about the great boards that supported the 64. For
such a section to be added, we all must describe more about it.
Detailed information is needed about BBSs, for this to happen. Does anyone have any ideas? |
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Jazzcat
Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1044 |
BBS Software - yes.
Hardware - nice to know, maybe not quite as important though.
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DemongerX
Account closed
Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 137 |
I agree, bbs software should be a must. You could often tell the feel of a bbs just by the software used(ie. ucbbs is very distinctive in how its setup, whereas you can generally tell if a bbs is a ivory or image or cbase, just by how the prompts respond.) |
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Stan
Account closed
Registered: Apr 2004
Posts: 187 |
BBS software would be appreciated.
Groups and magazines hq-ships regarded as most important. |
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Burglar
Registered: Dec 2004
Posts: 1071 |
also, for presentation, relevant data should also be shown on group/scener/mag/release, so links back to the board pages. but that should be pretty obvious.
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11302 |
burglar: yes ofcourse. all kinds of related "backlinks" are implicit (and well, they are easy to add once the rest is implemented, so thats nothing to get a headache about =P)
mmmh so, basically 3 things are missing from my proposal so far?
1. the bbs software ... imho the best way to reflect this would be simple links to release entries in the bbs entry
field type subfield
software used link to release timespan (one or more)
this would make it easily possible to not only point out what software was used, but also credit said software correctly, upload it etc. and most importantly, it would be a lot less problematic than using a selection list, which then would need constant maintenance, and would grow ridiculously large too =P
2. used hardware. i am not really sure how to implement this in a useful way. since there are no database entries for hardware items, pretty much the only way would be a selection list - however that could easily grow into a mess due to all the different stuff that should possibly be in such a list, and it would mean constant maintenance too.
3. associated magazines. this is really a tough one. were there really so many mags with official associated boards that some text or even links in the trivia couldnt cover it properly? however, i cant really think of a decent way how to represent this info in the database at this point - unless someone else has a clever idea :)
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Burglar
Registered: Dec 2004
Posts: 1071 |
about mags, quite a lot of mags are tied to a magazine staff group, like The Pulse Magazine Staff. so you could use a group as a sort of replacement mag id. not elegant, but simple and easy. |
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Jazzcat
Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1044 |
Groepaz: regarding the magazines and using boards as HQs. AFAIK it was _common_ 'mostly' between 1991-1996. So, not that many... ;)
You can add a website below a group or magazine, why not a BBS? |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11302 |
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You can add a website below a group or magazine, why not a BBS?
the problem is that there is no single entry for a magazine .... which makes it kinda messy (not impossible, but not quite elagant either).
what burglar said sounds a bit less messy (only one entry linked to the bbs, not every issue of the mag) ... still a bit .. MEEEH =P
*shrug* |
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Jazzcat
Registered: Feb 2002
Posts: 1044 |
Maybe it should only be included in the trivia section? The only other clean solution I see is adding the 'magazine staff' as the group (which has already been mentioned). That would also mean we would need to add quite a few "staff's" as only a few magazines have added a staff list as a individual entry on this database. |
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