BBS.io Reader

Work in Progress

This application will serve as an Email and Message Board reader for use mainly with BBS services. Currently working on setting up build/release automation.

Recommended IDE Setup

VS Code
- Tauri
- rust-analyzer
- Rome

Why?

Starting this as a project as most qwk and nntp readers generally suck and/or are antiquated. Thunderbird is all but completely unusable with NNTP + Synchronet and QWK Readers are also somewhat dated, and I found multimail didn't work correctly for me out of the box.

I want a GUI based message reader for BBS message boards with a modern UI/UX. I'm using Rust on the backend to learn the language, and because I think it's a good choice, generally speaking. I'm using Tauri with a browser based UI because I'm very comfortable with browser based UI/UX and want to reduce the friction on the UI from what I will experience in learning the backend.

I will make a best effort to write clear, discoverable code. This project may or may not follow best practices. On the backend, because I'm learning as I go. On the frontend, because I'm probably going to be taking shortcuts as a faster path to done.

I probably won't try to integrate into any release prospects until after I have an MVP of NNTP and Email (SMTP/POP) at the very least. I will be testing this against my own BBS, which runs Synchronet. I may also create extended support for some services specifically with Synchronet (ANSI User Icons and Polls).

Longer term, after MVP, but before enhanced rendering I will make an effort to get updating releases into the various stores for OS use... I will likely limit Linux to Flathub and possibly Snapcraft, but unlikely to do any distro integration beyond this.

TODO

High level TODO list. Note: Anything before 1.0 can have breaking changes at any time regardless of the version.

License