Guides

How to join a BBSA bulletin board system: a small online community on one computer, which people connect to from theirs to chat, leave messages and share files., how to set one up, and how to let people outside your home in. Every guide is free to share and adapt, under CC BY-SA 4.0, and lives in its own repository.

Joining a board

• Apps for joining: the free app you join a board with, on a phone, a computer or an old machine.
• Your first call: what happens when you connect, and what to type.
• Making the dial links work: when you click an address and nothing happens.
• The real risks of open communications: what travels in the clear, and what that means for you.

Running a board

• Set up your BBS: five steps to a board online, then a guide for each part.
• Let people outside your home join: opening your board to the internet, with a guide for ASUS, NETGEAR, TP-Link, Xfinity and eero and Google Nest Wifi.

Adding to a board

• Adding an SD card: file areas, forums and screens of your own.
• Lights: a drive light and a strip of pixels for a board in a case.
• Camera: a board that can take a picture when a caller asks.
• Skins: dressing a board with a screen up as another machine.

Putting the software on a board in the first place is on the installer page.