Hello! Anyone out there?

[Robert Harvey]

I feel like that person that turns up to a party when most of the guests have left or are asleep ...

A wave of nostalgia for a MUD I used to play (back in the 90s) got me out looking for some server code and I ended up going with TinyMUX because it is in the Ubuntu Repository and was the easiest to get up and running! :)

But it looks like the documentation is a bit out of date and haphazard although maybe that's just because the changes from 2.0 to 2.10 didn't add or change any of the front of house type stuff?

Lots of stubs and empty pages on the TinyMUX Wiki and I don't seem to be able to login or create an account to help out ... not that I'd be much help at the moment anyway but I could at least cut'n'paste stuff from the built in Help to the Wiki where it is missing.

But is it worth the effort?  Is TinyMUX still a thing or has it gone away? 

On our old MUD "players" had "Groups & Memberships" and a bunch of commands to create Groups and add players to them. I've been trying (unsuccessfully so far but it's early days!) to figure out how to acheive something like that with TinyMUX.

Anyway, that's me. Nice to meet you all ... if anyone is still lurking around the group! :)

Regards,

Rob

[Kristian Hansen]

Hi Rob - I'm still using TinyMUX in preference to more modern ways of building MUSHes. Always happy to talk about it, and there is support from more knowledgeable people here on demand...

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[Stephen Dennis]

If you need a wiki account, I can create one. It's just became easier to create upon request than to keep cleaning off the mediawiki graffiti every week.

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[Jace Hoppel]

The currently updated codebases in mud/mush are TinyMUX, PennMUSH, and RhostMUSH.  All in github.

Newer alternatives exist as well. 

Evennia is python based and mud like.

AresMUSH is ruby based and closer to mush in flavor.

Still interest blooming in the nitch.

[Marisa Giancarla]

Coffeemud is in java and very actively in development...

Marisa

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[Robert Harvey]

Tried Evennia, Nice but couldn't wrap my head around it! :) More just the fact that if the server went down I had to jump in and start environments and reload the Evennia server - TinyMUX and Ubuntu made that much easier.

Haven't heard of AresMUSH though. Might have a look but again, lazy, TinyMUX was a single apt-get install line and it was just there! Couldn't find anyone that had created PPAs for any other server so I'm happy to stick to TinyMUX for now. 

[Robert Harvey]

Ah. It's not a threaded conversation. I thought I was replying to the post Ash made but alas, I'm down the bottom. This could get confusing quickly!

Right then!

Brazil: Yes please! :) My email address is jack at jackcorbae dot com (I'm fairly sure writing it like that is pointless because any bot scanning posts looking for email addresses would probably be clever enough to recognise at and dot!)

Kristian: Awesome! I may pick your brains from time to time!

Marisa: I think I spotted CoffeeMUD but didn't try it. Oh yeah, I remember that now. (Just went and looked it up again) It's the Java based one. I'm running the MUD server off a free hosted Google Server so VERY limited CPU and RAM! :)