Comparing Synchronet to Major BBS or Wildcat, other than price, how do they compare? What are sone pros and cons to the other two comoared to Synchronet and hiw do they differ?

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Re: pros and cons
By: Morningstarr to All on Fri Dec 19 2025 02:12 pm

Comparing Synchronet to Major BBS or Wildcat, other than price, how do they compare? What are sone pros and cons to the other two comoared to Synchronet and hiw do they differ?

MajorBBS is a "multi-user" BBS where as Wildcat and Synchronet are "multi-node" BBSes. This used to be a bigger distinction before modern OSes with multi-threading, but main thing is that MajorBBS can't (as far as I know) directly run DOS door games. MajorBBS does have a lot of high quality purpose-built add-ons/mods/games, but they're proprietary to MajorBBS and won't run on any other platform/BBS.

Synchronet is open source, Wildcat is not and I don't think/know if MajorBBS has actually gone open source yet or not. Anyone can find and fix bugs in Synchronet or add features. Only Hector Santos can do that for Wildcat.

Synchronet has a standard integrated scripting language (ECMAScript, aka JavaScript) where as Wildcat's scripting language is a proprietary dialect of BASIC.

Synchronet is updated very frequently and development (aka alpha, beta) versions/builds are available to everyone immediately. Not so with Wildcat.

I don't think either Wildcat or MajorBBS support all the different TCP/IP application and transport/security protocols that Synchronet does. So, pretty sure Synchronet leads with its Internet-integration.

Most other differences are going to be subjective: what do *you* and your users like using better?
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Morningstarr wrote to All <=-

Comparing Synchronet to Major BBS or Wildcat, other than price, how do they compare? What are sone pros and cons to the other two comoared to Synchronet and hiw do they differ?

That's not a one-line answer. Why would you expect any of us to do that
kind of homework/research for you?

Do the work yourself and decide.




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Re: Re: pros and cons
By: Gamgee to Morningstarr on Fri Dec 19 2025 05:33 pm

Morningstarr wrote to All <=-

Comparing Synchronet to Major BBS or Wildcat, other than price, how do they compare? What are sone pros and cons to the other two comoared to Synchronet and hiw do they differ?

That's not a one-line answer. Why would you expect any of us to do that kind of homework/research for you?

Do the work yourself and decide.

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I was not expecting someone to go through all the fine details. Just some of thr major ones that stick out. I did some research as well, found some differences. I seen some differences. Just wondering which one was more featurerich. I am not going through all the documentation on them. i hope someone who
has sime experience can chime in, on a few details.

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I remember our county had bulletin, for all the schools, in the county. It was really cool, because it had twelve phone lines. It also allowed all the students to have internet email. One feature that stood out was the teachers could use the world group client and open the browser and get on the internet. It had telnet as well and tons of kids used the chat room. It was like a mini AOL. There would be around fifty people using the chat room. That client was really cool. During those years I became a cosysop on a wildcat board. That stood out was its intranet ability. Synchronet kind of does that with the web hosting ability. Synchronet has come a very long way. It's the best BBs software around hands down. Which bbs software is more feature rich? What type of Internet-integrations can synchronet do that the other two can't? Thanks
for your time sir!

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Re: pros and cons
By: Morningstarr to Digital Man on Fri Dec 19 2025 05:23 pm

Which bbs software is more feature rich?

I think that's too subjective of a question for me to answer. If Synchronet has more features, but you (or you users) don't care about or use those features, you wouldn't care.

What type of Internet-integrations can synchronet do that the
other two can't?

Here's a complete list of Synchronet's included TCP/IP servers/services: https://wiki.synchro.net/faq:tcpip#ports

Which ones exactly are or or are not supported by the other two, I don't know off the top of my head.

I don't think either Major BBS or Wildcat support SSH, for example. For a complete detailed comparison, you'll probably want to do a little more research yourself.
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Re: pros and cons
By: Morningstarr to Digital Man on Fri Dec 19 2025 05:23 pm

I think that's too subjective of a question for me to answer. If Synchronet has more features, but you (or you users) don't care about or use those features, you wouldn't care.

Here's a complete list of Synchronet's included TCP/IP servers/services: https://wiki.synchro.net/faq:tcpip#ports

Which ones exactly are or or are not supported by the other two, I don't know off the top of my head.

I don't think either Major BBS or Wildcat support SSH, for example. For a complete detailed comparison, you'll probably want to do a little more research yourself.
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Thanks man! That's basically all I wanted to know.

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