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iamhamm 15 hours ago [-]
I love them but unfortunately it’s just not as robust as it once was with regards to support. I’ve been locked out for some time now but can’t get a response from anyone. I know it’s volunteer driven but ultimately if people can’t rely on it, they’ll move on. Still happy I was able to support all these years but absent my account getting fixed, this will be my last year of support.
sen 8 hours ago [-]
Yeah I’ve been locked out for something like a year due to a config issue on the server side and haven’t been able to get a fix via email or irc so just gave up.
There’s lots of good retro-style communities around these days so I’ve moved on.
emigre 8 hours ago [-]
Exactly my experience with it, and I did the same, which is a pity.
chancitag 23 hours ago [-]
Love SDF. They run some great services for members, like a mastodon instance and pixelfed.
wrxd 21 hours ago [-]
These are really cool services but to have a proper blast from the past you need to ssh in and join the chat on com or the discussions on bboard
TedDoesntTalk 18 hours ago [-]
ssh? Don’t you mean telnet?
yjftsjthsd-h 16 hours ago [-]
SSH is 30 years old; it's fine
mulderc 9 hours ago [-]
Telnet is just a better name though.
yjftsjthsd-h 7 hours ago [-]
Is it? I don't get any intuitive connection from "telnet" to "shell access over the network", personally. Although, by the same token I would be open to reusing the rsh name; "remote shell" does seem obvious.
mulderc 6 hours ago [-]
Telnet sounds cooler.
jmclnx 18 hours ago [-]
Plus you can easily setup your own Gopher and/or Gemini site and you can have your WEB site there too.
FWIW, I migrated my WEB Site to Gemini with Gopher as a mirror. Maintaining those on SDF is far easier than maintaining via *panels.
emigre 19 hours ago [-]
The Interim Computer Museum in Tukwila, WA, is a partner organization.
I have an SDF login still and I go in there every once in awhile but don't really know what others use it for
emigre 19 hours ago [-]
I was hosting a site there, but the administration is unresponsive and I gave up on them. Lovely place, though.
jbaber 11 hours ago [-]
I still host my site there. I sometimes use it as a private git remote. The people you meet there in bboard and com are necessarily very interesting :)
It's a webhost.
It's a BBS.
It's one of the largest shared unix systems to learn your way around the shell without a computer.
user3939382 19 hours ago [-]
It’s great when you want to check on a server or IP from an outside network. You can do that from a phone but with SDF you have your full desktop terminal if you like and a clean cache.
binaryturtle 18 hours ago [-]
They allow port scans?
I did use nmap on a Linux VM going over the free ProtonVPN for this purpose, but at some point Proton broke something (it may be related to their VPN accelerator feature) and checking any port always reports "Open" (even if it's not), so sadly that made this cool use case entirely useless for me. It definitely was nice to know you had no open ports other than the ones you purposefully opened. :)
bilbo-b-baggins 10 hours ago [-]
Still got my account from the 90s
naggie 18 hours ago [-]
See also www.polarhome.com which has sadly closed shell accounts and shutdown machines.
Discovering SSH, bash, linux etc in 2004 was magical for me. I always liked the idea of SDF and polarhome and did a similar thing with a few friends for a while, albeit with limited success. Proper internet.
They also have their own streaming radio. Awesome list of tools. One of the few remaining shining lights of our original hacker culture, in the sense of the term from this forum’s name. Absolutely love SDF.
There’s lots of good retro-style communities around these days so I’ve moved on.
FWIW, I migrated my WEB Site to Gemini with Gopher as a mirror. Maintaining those on SDF is far easier than maintaining via *panels.
https://icm.museum/
It's a webhost. It's a BBS. It's one of the largest shared unix systems to learn your way around the shell without a computer.
I did use nmap on a Linux VM going over the free ProtonVPN for this purpose, but at some point Proton broke something (it may be related to their VPN accelerator feature) and checking any port always reports "Open" (even if it's not), so sadly that made this cool use case entirely useless for me. It definitely was nice to know you had no open ports other than the ones you purposefully opened. :)
Discovering SSH, bash, linux etc in 2004 was magical for me. I always liked the idea of SDF and polarhome and did a similar thing with a few friends for a while, albeit with limited success. Proper internet.
April https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47819410
2022 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31076886
2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14940790
2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14134798