@m0xee @davoloid

What is the point if it doesn't support emojis or media viewing?

@pyrate
WDYM doesn't support emojis? It displays them if your term supports them and you can view media with your default software for those file types by pressing "m".
It doesn't support emoji reactions, but it's trivial to add — it's like five lines of code.
@davoloid

@m0xee @davoloid

> its trivial
> its like 5 lines of code

@m0xee Can't see response from @pyrate@nicecrew.digital
*shrug*

@davoloid
Quite common these days: some instances block other instances 😩
It about the lack for emoji reaction support in tut and my reply about it being trivial to add.

@m0xee I figured. For mastodonochrome, lack of emoji support is a feature not a bug. In the mono bbs client which it's emulating, there's not even £ signs. We always type GBP.

But the other features that we're used to, like . on a line to finish post, reedit comment before sending, a keypress context-dependent menu, those are the things that have kept it alive for over 30 years :)

@davoloid
I see, it recreates the things specific to that BBS faithfully. Nostalgia value.
In my dialup-modem-BBS days the modems were already more performant and ANSI art was quite widespread, gomphotherium displaying images using blocks and ANSI sequences for colour kinda reminds me of that — that's why I mentioned it.

@m0xee Yeah, that was an option on mono, in fact ASCII art was the first reason I joined it, then stayed for the banter. In fact, there's an interactive programming language within the BBS to create animations and games. Limited refresh rate, of course.
That flexibility and ability to customise sections was what made it a fairly diverse crowd.

@davoloid
Yeah, dial-up BB systems I had frequented had some card games and text mini quests, some systems even had specialised GUI software that you had to use to access that BBS instead of terminal, it was almost Web-like 🤩
But then people somehow transitioned to FidoNet and later to Internet and the Web, the culture died out. TBH I didn't even see Gopher being used in my early Internet days — I knew that the protocol existed, but I didn't even know what it's for 😅

@davoloid
I think modern Gopherspace (which somehow survived) and Geminispace are in a way reincarnation of that culture — I see people even experimenting making interactive games, and I've seen Geminicapsule designed as a piece of interactive fiction using hyperlinks, you don't see stuff like that often in Webspace anymore — it's too vast to find something interesting and too commercialised.

@m0xee This is a very niche client, based on bespoke BBS that's been going since the early 90's. Nostalgia purposes really!