TextCraft, Slack as old-school MUD client

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Post by someben » Mon, Apr 20, 2015, 5:54 PM UTC

TextCraft, Slack as old-school MUD client
textcraft.co

Re: TextCraft, Slack as old-school MUD client

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Post by azza-bazoo » Mon, Apr 20, 2015, 6:40 PM UTC

This is such an awesome, anachronistic mix of the shiny new and the internet of yore.

It's a shame MUDs expect you to be constantly interacting, I keep being slow and having them time out on me (then having to ;;reset to revive the session ...)

Re: TextCraft, Slack as old-school MUD client

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Post by someben » Mon, Apr 20, 2015, 6:44 PM UTC

azza-bazoo wrote: post #2

This is such an awesome, anachronistic mix of the shiny new and the internet of yore. It's a shame MUDs expect you to be constantly interacting, I keep being slow and having them time out on me (then having to ;;reset to revive the session ...)

I've been tempted to send a "look" or "inv(entory)" command to keep-alive a session. Hmm...

Re: TextCraft, Slack as old-school MUD client

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Post by astrobe_ » Mon, Apr 20, 2015, 7:19 PM UTC

Also http://www.mudportal.com/

Re: TextCraft, Slack as old-school MUD client

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Post by bduerst » Mon, Apr 20, 2015, 7:31 PM UTC

astrobe_ wrote: post #4

Also http://www.mudportal.com/

Can't forget Mud Connector. They've been around since '94

http://www.mudconnect.com

Re: TextCraft, Slack as old-school MUD client

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Post by someben » Mon, Apr 20, 2015, 7:32 PM UTC

bduerst wrote: post #5

astrobe_ wrote: post #4

Also http://www.mudportal.com/

Can't forget Mud Connector. They've been around since '94 http://www.mudconnect.com

Great thanks. I'll add links to the homepage.

Re: TextCraft, Slack as old-school MUD client

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Post by zyxley » Mon, Apr 20, 2015, 7:34 PM UTC

azza-bazoo wrote: post #2

This is such an awesome, anachronistic mix of the shiny new and the internet of yore. It's a shame MUDs expect you to be constantly interacting, I keep being slow and having them time out on me (then having to ;;reset to revive the session ...)

Social MU*s usually have a keepalive option that does some silent character exchange in the background with the client every so often to keep the connection open.

Re: TextCraft, Slack as old-school MUD client

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Post by zyxley » Mon, Apr 20, 2015, 7:38 PM UTC

Thinking about it, I wonder if any MUD codebases have WebSockets support. It'd be interesting to see a full-featured client as a single web page.

Re: TextCraft, Slack as old-school MUD client

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Post by devindotcom » Mon, Apr 20, 2015, 7:38 PM UTC

A MUD thread!!

~~~Time for my yearly MUD mystery call-out!~~~

MUD fans, possibly only in the NW in the late 90s - did you ever play a MUD that had a replica of Garfield High School in Seattle in it, complete with teachers, rooms, etc? I am desperately hoping it is archived somewhere!

Re: TextCraft, Slack as old-school MUD client

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Post by grimgrin » Mon, Apr 20, 2015, 7:39 PM UTC

For those wanting to just look at a list of MUDs in a nice clean format, check out: http://mudstats.com

It can be filtered by genre, players on now, max within last 30 days, etc. At this moment it says "There are currently 832 active MUDs listed."

It uses the Mud Server Status Protocol (MSSP) to get its information, which was created because: "MUD listings are often out dated and lack accurate information. Verifying that the one submitting a new MUD is a member of the MUD's administration can be quite tedious as well."

Also the sidebar at http://www.reddit.com/r/mud has a lot of other MUD related links.