--- title: 'BBS Network' url: 'https://wiki.teletypegames.org/services/bbs-network' markdown: 'https://wiki.teletypegames.org/services/bbs-network.md' lang: en date: '2026-10-27' description: 'Ten boards answer on teletypegames.org, each on its own port, each in the browser on bbsweb too. TTG Gate BBS on teletypegames.org:2399 reaches all of them from one port. The boards Board Address What it is Page Teletype BBS teletypegames.org:2323 the clubhouse: message boards, mail, chat,…' taxonomy: tag: - howto --- # BBS Network > Ten boards answer on `teletypegames.org`, each on its own port, each in the browser on [bbsweb](https://bbsweb.teletypegames.org) too. [TTG Gate BBS](https://wiki.teletypegames.org/services/ttg-gate-bbs) on `teletypegames.org:2399` reaches all of them from one port. # The boards | Board | Address | What it is | Page | |---|---|---|---| | Teletype BBS | `teletypegames.org:2323` | the clubhouse: message boards, mail, chat, and its own doors (SERMO, C64, Plus/4, Chat of Ra, TTG Trivia) | [Teletype BBS](https://wiki.teletypegames.org/services/teletype-bbs) | | Impostor BBS | `teletypegames.org:2324` | the post-game terminal of *Definitely not an Impostor* | [Impostor BBS](https://wiki.teletypegames.org/services/impostor-bbs) | | TTG Wiki BBS | `teletypegames.org:2325` | this wiki in a two-pane browser | [TTG Wiki BBS](https://wiki.teletypegames.org/services/wiki-bbs) | | Alexandria BBS | `teletypegames.org:2326` | Wikipedia on a telnet line | [Alexandria BBS](https://wiki.teletypegames.org/services/alexandria-bbs) | | Feedia BBS | `teletypegames.org:2327` | an RSS reader: the news as text, suggestions to the admins | [Feedia BBS](https://wiki.teletypegames.org/services/feedia-bbs) | | TTG Blog BBS | `teletypegames.org:2328` | the Teletype Games blog: posts by category, editors write on the line | [TTG Blog BBS](https://wiki.teletypegames.org/services/ttg-blog-bbs) | | WarpEngine BBS | `teletypegames.org:2329` | the file area: the C64 and Plus/4 shelves, ZMODEM and XMODEM downloads | [WarpEngine BBS](https://wiki.teletypegames.org/services/warp-engine-bbs) | | Scriptorium BBS | `teletypegames.org:2330` | the literature vault: Project Gutenberg books, a chapter at a time | [Scriptorium BBS](https://wiki.teletypegames.org/services/scriptorium-bbs) | | Commodex BBS | `teletypegames.org:2331` | the C64 game compendium: titles from Wikidata, Wikipedia, callers' cheats and tips | [Commodex BBS](https://wiki.teletypegames.org/services/commodex-bbs) | | Pixelia BBS | `teletypegames.org:2332` | the art gallery: ANSI art from 16colo.rs, the Wall, a shared 40×25 canvas | [Pixelia BBS](https://wiki.teletypegames.org/services/pixelia-bbs) | All ten are built on [rubbs](https://wiki.teletypegames.org/engines/rubbs), and all ten have two faces on one port: a **modern** one for ANSI terminals (windows, menus, mouse; TTG Blog BBS is line by line) and a **Commodore 64** one in PETSCII, 40×25. A call starts with the same question (rubbs' `BBS::Terminal`): the board guesses from the telnet answers (a window wider than 40 columns is a modern terminal, 40 or no answer a C64), `1` picks modern, `2` the C64, RETURN takes it. # Calling - **One port for all** — `telnet teletypegames.org 2399`: [TTG Gate BBS](https://wiki.teletypegames.org/services/ttg-gate-bbs), a dialing menu that puts the call through to any board and takes it back when the board hangs up. - **A telnet client** — `telnet teletypegames.org 2323`, or SyncTERM, NetRunner, PuTTY. - **A browser** — [bbsweb.teletypegames.org](https://bbsweb.teletypegames.org): one card per board, xterm.js, mouse and ZMODEM downloads; the C64 switch shows the PETSCII face. See [BBS Web](https://wiki.teletypegames.org/services/bbsweb). - **A Commodore 64** — a terminal program (CCGMS, StrikeTerm) behind a WiFi modem: `ATDT teletypegames.org:2323`. # Between the boards Each kind of thing has one board, and the others do not repeat it: the Teletype BBS keeps the community (boards, mail, chat) and the doors that live only there (SERMO, the Commodore 64 and Plus/4, Chat of Ra, TTG Trivia), and tells where the rest is. It has no gateway doors since 2026-11-01: a caller reaches another board by calling its port, or through **TTG Gate BBS** on 2399, which puts the call through to any of them (rubbs' `BBS::Gateway`) and takes it back when that board hangs up. **Board > BBS Network** on the Teletype BBS (on the C64 face: `N`) shows every board as a building of the town map on the clubhouse wall, with what it carries, and its TTG Master answers the same. # How they run Every board is a Docker stack on the VPS, deployed from Woodpecker by a push to master through `ci-deploy` (see [Deployment](https://wiki.teletypegames.org/infrastructure/deployment)): | Board | Repository | Stack / container | Inside port | |---|---|---|---| | Teletype BBS | `bbs/teletype-bbs` | `/srv/stacks/teletype-bbs`, `teletype-bbs` | 2323 | | Impostor BBS | `bbs/impostor-bbs` | `/srv/stacks/impostor-bbs`, `impostor-bbs` | 2324 | | TTG Wiki BBS | `bbs/wiki-bbs` | `/srv/stacks/wiki-bbs`, `wiki-bbs` | 2323 | | Alexandria BBS | `bbs/alexandria-bbs` | `/srv/stacks/alexandria-bbs`, `alexandria-bbs` | 2323 | | Feedia BBS | `bbs/feedia-bbs` | `/srv/stacks/feedia-bbs`, `feedia-bbs` | 2323 | | TTG Blog BBS | `bbs/ttg-blog-bbs` | `/srv/stacks/ttg-blog-bbs`, `ttg-blog-bbs` | 2323 | | WarpEngine BBS | `bbs/warp-engine-bbs` | `/srv/stacks/warp-engine-bbs`, `warp-engine-bbs` | 2323 | | Scriptorium BBS | `bbs/scriptorium-bbs` | `/srv/stacks/scriptorium-bbs`, `scriptorium-bbs` | 2323 | | Commodex BBS | `bbs/commodex-bbs` | `/srv/stacks/commodex-bbs`, `commodex-bbs` | 2323 | | Pixelia BBS | `bbs/pixelia-bbs` | `/srv/stacks/pixelia-bbs`, `pixelia-bbs` | 2323 | | TTG Gate BBS (2399) | `bbs/ttg-gate-bbs` | `/srv/stacks/ttg-gate-bbs`, `ttg-gate-bbs` | 2323 | Each container updates rubbs at start, so a pushed rubbs reaches the boards with their next restart; `devarea/scripts/bbs-lock-bump.sh --push` moves every board's `Gemfile.lock` to the same revision (since 2026-11-01 all eleven are on rubbs 0.29.1, and their C64 screens, logos, goodbyes and Discord posts come from rubbs' shared blocks). The ports are open in ufw ([Server ports](https://wiki.teletypegames.org/infrastructure/server-ports)). In [Grafana](https://wiki.teletypegames.org/infrastructure/grafana), **VPS: BBS** shows the live sessions per board and the gate, how many of the eleven run, their resources and error lines. # A new board A new board leaves a trace in several repositories; it is done when all of these follow it: 1. **The board** — a repo in the `bbs` org on rubbs, `BBS::Terminal.flow` for the two faces, the next free port (2333; 2399 is the gate's), `compose.yaml` publishing it. `devarea/scripts/new-bbs.sh` writes a working one from the house template (the domain layers, both faces on rubbs' `BBS::Petscii::Screen`, `BlockFont` and `Goodbye`, Docker, CI); the full checklist is `devarea/procedures/bbs-server-creation.md`. 2. **Deploy** — `infra/host-config`: `files/etc/ci-deploy/.conf` (`ALLOW_PORTS`), its MANIFEST line, the deploy key; on the server `ufw allow /tcp`, the stack folder, the Woodpecker secret. 3. **Monitoring** — `infra/host-config` `vps-textfile-metrics`: the container in the `BBS` map (sessions, up; the VPS: BBS dashboard matches every `.+-bbs` container by itself); `infra/observability`: the port on the public-port allowlist in `grafana/provisioning/alerting/rules.yaml`. 4. **TTG Gate BBS and bbsweb** — an entry in `bbs/ttg-gate-bbs` `config/boards.yml`, and a card in `services/bbs-web` `config/config.json` (`petscii: true` for the C64 switch). 5. **Teletype BBS** — a row in `lib/content/network.yml` and the board's two buildings on the town map (`lib/content/art/modern/building_ID.yml`, 12×4, and `lib/content/art/c64/building_ID.yml`, 3×3), and the TTG Master's facts (`master_knowledge.yml` and `master_knowledge_c64.yml`): where the new kind of thing is now. 6. **Wiki** — its own page, a line in the Services sidebar, this page and [Server ports](https://wiki.teletypegames.org/infrastructure/server-ports). 7. **devarea** — `scripts/repos.list` and `WIKI_CONNECTION.md`. 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