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    From pweck@23:1/1 to All on Thursday, September 24, 2026 12:34:07
    how are you actually handling callers whose terminal can't render ansi
    properly

    do you build a separate fallback screen, just keep it plain text entirely and skip the fancy stuff, or something in between

    i want to make sure my board is still usable and welcoming for people on limited terminals without spending twice the effort maintaining two
    completely separate designs.

    pweck
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  • From Fae Empress@23:1/108 to pweck on Thursday, September 24, 2026 22:40:49
    how are you actually handling callers whose terminal can't render ansi properly

    do you build a separate fallback screen, just keep it plain text entirely and skip the fancy stuff, or something in between

    i want to make sure my board is still usable and welcoming for people on limited terminals without spending twice the effort maintaining two completely separate designs.

    I use THEDRAW for DOS and save an ASCII copy of my ANSI art for fallback. I've actually had to use the fallback art on a couple calls from telnet on Linux. --- SBBSecho 3.06-Linux
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  • From pweck@23:1/1 to Fae Empress on Friday, September 25, 2026 09:08:34
    i want to make sure my board is still usable and welcoming for people o limited terminals without spending twice the effort maintaining two completely separate designs.

    I use THEDRAW for DOS and save an ASCII copy of my ANSI art for
    fallback. I've actually had to use the fallback art on a couple calls

    Great idea! i use thedraw but usually just in to do .ans. i also use durdraw to load .asc then save as .ans for thedraw

    pweck
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