Walraven/SIMud

Since one of our biggest concerns at present is organizing the mudlib development and resuscitating the community, my first priority is improving communication between everyone.

Initially, this means two things:

1. forums
2. mudmail

We have existing systems for both of these, but both systems stink for one reason or another. Malap’s forum system served us very well for a number of years, but eventually began to fade around the edges, showing age and lack of maintenance. Mudmail… is pretty much a joke. The in-game client is mediocre at best and unusable in many cases.
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(Wow. A repost with immediately useful application. This is my original writeup for an in-game forum interface… and it will likely be the springboard I use when actually implementing the communication upgrade ideas.)

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The in-game forum system is long overdue. It should be very similar to the mudmail client, they should both use similar commands, etc…
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allaryin idea, repost forums, mail, plans