Documentation

Everything you need to run, use, and extend your ANetBBS.

Getting Started 3

ANetBBS Overview 00-overview
Quick Start 01-installing
Full Install Guide INSTALL

Daily Operations 7

Sysop daily ops 02-sysop-daily-ops
Menus and the data-driven engine 03-menus
Multinode + NodeSpy 09-multinode-nodespy
Spam control 11-spam-control
Upgrading 12-upgrading
Auto-social-posting queue 31-social-posting
`anetbbs-monitor` — the live node monitor 32-node-monitor

Networks & Mail 2

Echomail (FidoNet-style networks) 06-echomail
File areas 07-file-areas

Look & Feel 2

ANSI screens 04-ansi-screens
Themes 08-themes

Doors & Games 4

External programs (the `exec` action) 05-external-programs
Door games 14-door-games
Synchronet door compatibility 15-synchronet-compat
Game Center — built-in web games catalog 24-game-center

Web Features 5

Personal web pages 10-personal-pages
Image galleries 13-image-galleries
RSS Reader 16-rss-reader
Watch It Live — public activity page 29-watch-live
Postcards — shareable ANSI/PETSCII art 30-postcards

Development 1

Development 17-development

Reference 5

ANetBBS Changelog CHANGELOG
ANetBBS Changelog — Beta History (pre-v1.0.0) CHANGELOG-beta
Ports used by ANetBBS PORTS
Security defaults & production hardening SECURITY
MSP Loopback Test (ANetBBS ↔ ANetBBS) MSP_LOOPBACK_TEST

Other 12

ANetBBS federation directory (`anetbbs.lst`) 20-federation
Scheduled events 21-scheduled-events
Running ANetBBS in Docker 22-containers
Webhooks 23-webhooks
PETSCII (Commodore 64/128) terminal support 25-petscii
Synchronet Door Games 26-synchronet-json-rpc-doors
MRC chat (Multi Relay Chat) 27-mrc-chat
`anetbbs-cfg` — the terminal config tool 28-anetbbs-cfg
Presence Alerts 33-presence-alerts
ANetBBS on Raspberry Pi — Full Install Guide INSTALL-PI
Importing an existing BBS file base FILEBASE-MIGRATION
No-Root Quick Start 01b-no-root-install

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