The creator of wFido opens FTN.SU reading without registration, introduces support for hypertext Fidonet

Max Lushnikov (2: 5020/1519), the creator of the popular WebBBS called wFido, three days ago (April 21, 2013) announced that it would be possible to use his system on the FTN.SU website without prior registration.

The view of the FTN.SU main page partly reminds its viewer about Google:


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Directly under the logo is a search engine window searching by Fidonet (try for example to enter “Habrahabr” and see what will be there), as well as three hyperlinks, the last of which opens a page with a brief story about the project, the last but one is a complete list of echo conferences available on the site (they can be sorted alphabetically, by the number of letters and by popularity), and the first one opens the “Top20”, that is, the twenty most popular. (The popularity of the echo conference is determined by the number of registered points on the node at Lushnikov, which read the echo conference.)

Hypertext Fidonet support in wFido (unofficially tested at least since December 2009 ) also appeared on this site: at the bottom of every message its universal address (FGHI URL) is visible, and wFido search works not only by the name of echo conferencing and by the content of echomail, but also by message URLs.

As a postscript, I will also tell you that the abbreviation “FTN” means “Fidonet Technology Network” (a network built using Fidonet technologies), and the abbreviation “SU” in the national Fidonet traditionally means either “Soviet Union” (Soviet Union) or “South Ural ”(South Ural is the cradle of the Russian Fidonet: at the time of its formation, the Russian Fidonet region consisted of two Novosibirsk and two Chelyabinsk nodes), so it’s very good that the Internet domain“ .SU ” allowed us to renew this pleasant ambiguity, reminiscent of Fidonet’s history.