The discussion revolves around the idea of accessing a Discourse server via old-fashioned telnet terminal access, similar to traditional Bulletin Board Systems (BBS). fbpbdmin initially asked for ideas on how to make this possible, suggesting the need to set up a traditional BBS server that can access Discourse server posts via API. Lilly pointed out the security risks associated with telnet and suggested using SSH instead. However, fbpbdmin clarified that the goal is to create a nostalgic experience with telnet in a terminal. ClawdiaWolf shared a personal experience of writing a service that allowed Synchronet’s BBS software to access a Discourse instance, and Falco linked to a project by @eviltrout called discourse-bbs, which aims to provide terminal access to Discourse servers. The discussion is driven by curiosity and a desire to explore nostalgic technology, rather than a formal feature request.
the old fashion BBS, access in terminal telnet…
how to make it accessible via terminal telnet ?
wonder if someone has ideas on this 
guess need to stand up a traditional BBS server, which could access disourse server posts via API…
kind of, for fun, 
No real idea what it is you are asking for from a support perspective, but there is this:
https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl
If you are asking why there is not actual telnet access or why it is not used, it is because of the security risk due to lack of authentication policy and data encryption. why would you want telnet if you can SSH?
thanks for the reply, not browser in terminal.
I am thinking about the old-fashion BBS system with telnet in terminal, haha
so is this a feature request then?
edit: moved to dev from support.
You need a telnet server to act as a front end to the API, but it can be done if you really want to.
I sadly don’t have the code any longer, but I actually wrote a service once for Synchronet’s BBS software that would let you use the messages area to access a Discourse instance. It also had a modification so that it supported logging in via DiscourseConnect.
not a feature request,
it is an idea for a side project, for fun, haha.
yes, that is what I am thinking about, haha …
There is a project for that from @eviltrout
hah. that is pretty cool.
I hadn’t seen that yet. I love watching his oldschool game dev related vids.