As of now is offline and mmud explorer and nightmare redux have been closed-sourced. So maybe I’ll be the one to take the tools offline and allow the Facebook group to grow instead. I have tried time and time again to make this point on the Facebook groups, only to get ignored, or even chastised for doing so. A) because it sucks and B) because it's simply not designed for searching in mind and it's not people's inclination to do so. On a Facebook group people don't even bother searching. I realize that no matter which medium we choose, people will still ask the same questions over and over, but at least on a forum all of those questions and answers are preserved, indexed, and searchable to help people in the future and keep this community going. It doesn’t help anyone to have what little information and communication we do have spread out over various mediums. Right now there are 2 Facebook groups, a reddit group, as well as some other random pages/wikkis on MajorMUD.
Worse, no more than 11 posts below his, was a link to this exact thread on. But guess what? In a month his post will be forgotten, buried, and no one will ever see it again because Facebook does not categorize posts and doesn’t offer anywhere near the search capabilities of a forum. While none of them actually answered his question, which was sitting right here on, it was good discussion.
Within a few hours there was a number of responses. Something fairly unique in the community. He was trying to setup his board on a VMWare (ESXi) host. More importantly however, was the nature of his question and the responses that followed. This person didn’t even know was still active. The solution to this question was answered in step 1 of my guide, posted on, stickied to the top of a forum.
He posted a long-winded question after obviously spending a lot of time trying to figure stuff out. Recently the straw broke the camel’s back as a newly aspiring BBS sysop struggled to get WG/MajorMUD installed. Time and time again I watch people ask the same questions over and over again. Unfortunately, that pride and satisfaction has turned to frustration as I watch the decentralization of information to Facebook groups. I never intended to get anything more than the satisfaction of helping the community in return.
I offer everything for free and pay the hosting fees for this out of my own pocket.
And even though it’s a slow process, it’s great seeing people create mods to share as well.įrom all these things, I have received nothing in return. It’s been awesome seeing people create vast realms like MudRev and BearFather’s board. I have taken a lot of pride watching everyone use these tools to keep MajorMUD going. If it wasn’t for Nightmare Redux, MMUD Explorer, and eventually after the disappearance of MMB/ForumsHQ, I believe the MajorMUD BBS’s out there and community surrounding it would not exist today. I have spent many days, weeks, and months of my life dedicated to keeping MajorMUD alive through this website and the tools I’ve created. This was posted on Now before you troll him or even me think about how much info this site has provided and now is possibily lost.