if your software supports it, set up a spare node just for testing new settings and menus. callers stay on the main nodes while you experiment safely. once a change works, move it over to the live setup. this habit prevents most self-inflicted outages

pweck
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if your software supports it, set up a spare node just for testing new setti and menus. callers stay on the main nodes while you experiment safely. once ange works, move it over to the live setup. this habit prevents most self-in ted outages

How? You'd have to re-path your whole system and have a duplicate... Ever door would have to be totally redone... I don't see how this could possibly work if you don't use relative paths. I don't.

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if your software supports it, set up a spare node just for testing new and menus. callers stay on the main nodes while you experiment safely. ange works, move it over to the live setup. this habit prevents most se ted outages

How? You'd have to re-path your whole system and have a duplicate... Ever door would have to be totally redone... I don't see how this could possibly work if you don't use relative paths. I don't.

i have a separate directory, mystic-tmp, i can use to test things out. of course you nwould probably only need it if you are testing a bunch
the other option would be to see if you bbs software can assign a "sysop only" node? anyone know if thats possible with mystic? there's a Nx access control string:
"This command is used to check if a user is online a certain node number. For example: N1 will require that the user is currently logged in on Node 1 in order to pass. "

pweck
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How? You'd have to re-path your whole system and have a duplicate... Ever door would have to be totally redone... I don't see how this could possibly work if you don't use relative paths. I don't.

i did find an answer, at least on mystic bbs:
./mystic -l N11
so if you had 10 nodes available, this would log you into node 11, invisible to users as there isn't a node 11 available

pweck
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if your software supports it, set up a spare node just for testing n and menus. callers stay on the main nodes while you experiment safel ange works, move it over to the live setup. this habit prevents most ted outages

How? You'd have to re-path your whole system and have a duplicate... Ever door would have to be totally redone... I don't see how this coul possibly work if you don't use relative paths. I don't.

i have a separate directory, mystic-tmp, i can use to test things out. of co you nwould probably only need it if you are testing a bunch the other
option would be to see if you bbs software can assign a "sysop only
ode? anyone know if thats possible with mystic? there's a Nx access control ng: "This command is used to check if a user is online a certain
node number. For ample: N1 will require that the user is currently
logged in on Node 1 in orde o pass. "

I use c:\ele\etc... for each door and executable. I don't see how this would work! I'd have to change all of them. I can't use ..\ as that wouldn't work with my setup.

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How? You'd have to re-path your whole system and have a duplicate... Ever door would have to be totally redone... I don't see how this coul possibly work if you don't use relative paths. I don't.

i did find an answer, at least on mystic bbs: ./mystic -l N11 so if
you had 10 nodes available, this would log you into node 11, invisible
users as there isn't a node 11 available

How would that be any better than testing on an existing node? I really
don't understand...

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i did find an answer, at least on mystic bbs: ./mystic -l N11 so if
you had 10 nodes available, this would log you into node 11, invisible users as there isn't a node 11 available

How would that be any better than testing on an existing node? I really don't understand...

well depending on how many nodes, you might want to save them all for callers

pweck
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On October 6 2026, Shurato wrote:

if your software supports it, set up a spare node just for testing new
setti
and menus. callers stay on the main nodes while you experiment safely.
once
ange works, move it over to the live setup. this habit prevents most
self-in
ted outages

How? You'd have to re-path your whole system and have a duplicate... Ever
door would have to be totally redone... I don't see how this could possibly
work if you don't use relative paths. I don't.

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It feels like these tips are not based on real life sysops and ai
garbage. Lets try to have real good content

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On 10/6/2026 6:24 PM, Pweck wrote to Shurato:

How? You'd have to re-path your whole system and have a duplicate... Ever door would have to be totally redone... I don't see how this could
possibly work if you don't use relative paths. I don't.

i did find an answer, at least on mystic bbs:
./mystic -l N11
so if you had 10 nodes available, this would log you into node 11, invisible to
users as there isn't a node 11 available

pweck
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Interesting. That's worth the price of admission to sysopnet right there :)

Mike Dippel


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It feels like these tips are not based on real life sysops and ai
garbage. Lets try to have real good content

nope, just posting what i think are helpful tips
i have a 2nd setup of my bbs for testing and now the "11th" node

pweck
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* In a message originally to Shurato, pweck said:

i did find an answer, at least on mystic bbs: ./mystic -l N11 so

if

you had 10 nodes available, this would log you into node 11,

invisible

users as there isn't a node 11 available

How would that be any better than testing on an existing node? I

really

don't understand...

well depending on how many nodes, you might want to save them all for callers

I have 20... Usually only 1 is used.

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well depending on how many nodes, you might want to save them all for callers

I have 20... Usually only 1 is used.

time for us to band together and build a new, younger group of callers. we need someone to build a good app for mobile phones that provides a good alternative to doom scrolling! there are a few out there but not imo easy to navigate

pweck
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* In a message originally to Shurato, pweck said:

well depending on how many nodes, you might want to save them all

for

callers

I have 20... Usually only 1 is used.

time for us to band together and build a new, younger group of callers. we need someone to build a good app for mobile phones that provides a good alternative to doom scrolling! there are a few out there but not imo easy
to navigate

terminator is easy enough... You just need to add systems manually.

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time for us to band together and build a new, younger group of callers. need someone to build a good app for mobile phones that provides a good alternative to doom scrolling! there are a few out there but not imo ea to navigate

terminator is easy enough... You just need to add systems manually.

i wasnt aware of that one, it does look pretty good!

pweck
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* In a message originally to Shurato, pweck said:

time for us to band together and build a new, younger group of

callers.

need someone to build a good app for mobile phones that provides a

good

alternative to doom scrolling! there are a few out there but not

imo ea

to navigate

terminator is easy enough... You just need to add systems manually.

i wasnt aware of that one, it does look pretty good!

It's really the only one if you're using 80x25. Connectbot's latest version
no longer supports ansi very well and termius sucks.

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It's really the only one if you're using 80x25. Connectbot's latest version no longer supports ansi very well and termius sucks.

yes ive been using termius, but gonna change over!

pweck
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time for us to band together and build a new, younger group of calle need someone to build a good app for mobile phones that provides a g alternative to doom scrolling! there are a few out there but not imo to navigate

terminator is easy enough... You just need to add systems manually.

i wasnt aware of that one, it does look pretty good!

It supports Sixel, JPGXL, APC Sound and TAP+!

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