Features

ANetBBS aims to be a complete modern BBS — classic in spirit, modern
in plumbing. Below is the full feature inventory.

Access

• Web Access (HTTP/HTTPS, real-time updates via WebSockets)
• Telnet (TCP 23)
• SSH (TCP 22, password and key auth)
• Rlogin (TCP 513, used by game-server style auto-login)
• Gemini (TCP 1965, read-only mirror of public boards)
• Finger (TCP 79, user info)

Messaging

• Message Boards — local discussion forums with categories,
  pinning, locking, reactions, polls, mentions, and attachments
• Echomail — FidoNet-style global discussion areas with full
  BinkP networking
• Netmail — point-to-point FidoNet mail
• Private Messages — one-to-one mail between local users
• Instant Messages — Inter-BBS real-time IM via the MSP
  protocol (TCP 18)

Files

• File Library with file areas, categorization,
  uploads, downloads, descriptions, ratings, and virus scanning
• TIC Processor for FidoNet TIC echo distribution
• QWK mail packets for offline reading

Doors

• Doors — door game subsystem driving:
• Native Synchronet (over rlogin)
• DOS doors via DOSBox-staging + TCP nullmodem bridge
• Web doors (native HTML/JS games)

Real-time

• Chat — multi-user chat with channels
• IRC Bridge — bridge to/from external IRC networks
• MRC — the Multi-Relay Chat protocol used by many BBSes
• Telegram Bridge
• Sysop Page — bell the sysop, see who's around

Information

• RSS Reader — built-in feed aggregator (web + terminal)
• Bulletins — sysop-curated short notices
• Site Pages — pages the sysop hand-authors
• Personal Pages — user-edited homepages on the BBS
• Image Gallery
• Stats — site activity, top users, leaderboards
• Nodelist — FidoNet/network nodelist browser
• This wiki (/wiki/)

Sysop tools

• Sysop Control Panel — services, NodeSpy, who's online
• NodeSpy — view and kick live terminal sessions
• Echomail Admin — networks, areas, BinkP polling
• Doors Admin — register doors and game servers
• RSS Admin — manage feeds
• Files Admin — areas, virus scanner, batch tools
• Themes — switch the dark theme palette per-user or globally
• Backup — sqlite dump + asset archive
• Tutorial — sysop onboarding walkthrough