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 2233)
• SSH (TCP 2234, password and key auth)
• Rlogin (TCP 513, used by game-server style auto-login — off by
  default, sysop must enable it)
• PETSCII (TCP 6400/6401, Commodore 64/128 terminal support —
  off by default, sysop must enable it)
• Gemini — not a real Gemini-protocol (TLS+1965) listener; your
  gemtext capsule is exposed over plain HTTP at /gemini/<username>
• 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
• FTP access (off by default, FTP_ENABLED) — browse/download file
  areas with any plain FTP client; anonymous read-only + authenticated
  uploads where permitted, see Files
• TIC Processor for FidoNet TIC echo distribution
• QWK mail packets for offline reading

Doors

• Game Center — 21 built-in browser games (puzzle, action,
  cards/casino, strategy, RPG) plus terminal doors, all in one lobby
• Doors — door game subsystem driving:
• Native Synchronet (over rlogin)
• DOS doors via DOSBox-staging + TCP nullmodem bridge
• Web doors (native HTML/JS games)
• ANetCRAFT — a bundled, pure-Python Minecraft-like survival door,
  active by default, no separate install needed. (Not the same thing
  as the standalone ANetCRAFT-Door C# project — same name, different
  codebase.)

Real-time

• Chat — multi-user chat with channels
• IRC Bridge — relays one local MRC room to one IRC
  server/channel (sysop sets this up in the database; no admin UI)
• IRC Client — each logged-in user can connect to their own IRC
  server, nick, and channels from the web
• 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
• Ebook Reader — search and read free public-domain books
  (Project Gutenberg, via the Gutendex API) in the web or terminal UI
• This wiki (/wiki/)
• Ask Anet — an in-BBS help guru (/guru/) that full-text
  searches this wiki for your question (SQLite FTS5, no external or
  local AI model involved) instead of making you go find the right
  page yourself

Sysop tools

• Sysop Control Panel — the Service Control Center (per-service
  start/stop/restart, live CPU/RAM/thread graphs, listener health,
  journal viewer), NodeSpy, who's online
• Scheduled Events — cron-style maintenance jobs (log rotation,
  SQLite VACUUM, security-update checks, nodelist generation, InterBBS
  sync, arbitrary shell commands)
• 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
• Auto-social-posting queue — drafts posts to Bluesky/Mastodon from
  BBS activity, held for sysop review-and-approve before anything
  actually ships (Admin → Social)