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Catch Bugs Before Your Customers DoMove from alert to fix before users notice. AppSignal monitors errors, performance bottlenecks, host health, and uptime—all from one dashboard. Instant notifications on deployments, anomaly triggers for memory spikes or error surges, and seamless log management. Works out of the box with Rails, Django, Express, Phoenix, Next.js, and dozens more. Starts at $23/month with no hidden fees.
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Gemini 3 and 200+ AI Models on One PlatformBuild generative AI apps with Vertex AI Studio. Switch between models without switching platforms.
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SyncTERM
Cross-platform BBS (ANSI) Terminal
A cross-platform ANSI-BBS terminal designed to connect to remote BBSs via telnet, rlogin, or SSH. Supports ANSI music and the IBM charset when possible. Will run from a console, under X11 using XLib, or using SDL. -
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phpBB
phpBB is the world's leading open source discussion forum software.
phpBB is the world's leading Open Source flat style discussion forum software. It includes all the features you expect to find in today's top of the line software. -
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Qodem is a a terminal emulator that resembles the BBS-era Qmodem. Includes phonebook, scrollback, capture, X/Y/Zmodem, Kermit, ANSI (+ music) / Avatar / VT102 / Linux emulation, Unicode, and keyboard macros. Connects over serial, ssh, telnet, rlogin.
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Push Code. Get a Production URL. Done.Skip the Kubernetes configs. Cloud Run handles HTTPS, scaling, and infrastructure automatically. Two million requests free per month.
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AJAX Chat - Open Source Web Chat
Fully customizable web chat created using AJAX.
MOVED: This project has moved to https://github.com/Frug/AJAX-Chat AJAX Chat is a fully customizable web chat implemented in JavaScript, PHP and MySQL which integrates nicely with common forum systems like phpBB, MyBB, PunBB, SMF and vBulletin. A Flash and Ruby based socket connection can be used to boost performance. -
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Yet another Bulletin Board (YaBB)
Free forum software
YaBB is a FREE Perl forum (bulletin board) system that has rivaled professional message boards for years. YaBB provides chat for visitors where they can post any time and reply to anyone! -
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The full source code release of the Maximus bulletin board software and related projects (including Squish and other utilities).
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GNU/Linux-compatible version of the now unavailable Red Light Variety Alpha software, a Hotline protocol client and server with Japanese language support. Future versions aim at more internationalization and better sharing functions.
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MongoDB Atlas runs apps anywhereMongoDB Atlas gives you the freedom to build and run modern applications anywhere—across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. With global availability in over 115 regions, Atlas lets you deploy close to your users, meet compliance needs, and scale with confidence across any geography.
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Message board originally derived from ASP-DEv Support Forums. These forums are completely database driven and fully customizable. Snitz Forums 2000 can work for your organization to boost customer support and provide a medium of communications for anyone
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TundraDraw is a cross-platform ANSI drawing program written with C++, using the Qt Toolkit. Thus, it runs natively on both X environments and Windows. It features network connectivity to allow artists to draw together over the Internet.
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Qsampler
A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface
Qsampler is a linuxsampler GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt4 toolkit using Qt Designer. For the moment it just wraps the client interface of LinuxSampler Control Protocol (LSCP) (http://www.linuxsampler.org). -
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ACiD View 6 is is a multimedia viewer for Windows. Its the first to support a variety of both textmode and bitmap graphic formats such as ANSI/ASCII, XBIN, GIF, JPEG and PNG. Additional features include a modem-speed simulator, VGA previewing and more!
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FreeDoor is a 32-bit BBS Door Development Kit for Windows and OS/2. All up-to-date information and future releases are available from http://www.elysoft.net/
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PHP/MySQL Discussion Forum with frames-based layout, reply-to-user, e-mail notification, HTML-posting, signatures, friends & killfiles, user promotion/demotion and full admin tools.
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MBSE BBS for Linux & Unix
MBSE BBS is a full FTN-capable ANSI BBS and mailer package.
MBSE BBS is a fully FTN-capable ANSI BBS package including a mailer (ifcico clone), BinkP daemon, mail tosser, TIC processor, filefind, and other utilities allowing access via modem and the Internet using telnet, ssh, http and ftp. Support is offered through the Fidonet MBSE echo and the Micronet MIN_BBS echo. -
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This is the Standard French translation project for phpBB3. We are doing translations of the actual software itself (language files, packages and imagesets).
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MultiMail is an offline mail packet reader for Unix and other systems. It currently supports the Blue Wave, QWK, OMEN, OPX and SOUP formats. It has a full screen, color user interface, built with the curses library.
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Multiuser BBS/Internet Server Software for multiple platforms including Windows and Linux (legacy versions maintained for DOS and OS/2). Multithreaded modular C/C++ project that includes Telnet, FTP, and Mail servers and support for popular DOS doorgames.
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The Clans was a popular game written for online BBSes back in the day of their great popularity. It is a text-based game featuring inter-BBS communications. It was written initially for Turbo C++, but has been ported to gcc and MSVC
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MOD Studio is a modification development environment designed for taking the hassle out of creating MOD Template files for phpBB.
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mvnForum is a open source, powerful, easy to use/setup bulletin board (forum) built on the J2EE technology(Jsp/Servlet) and compatible with any Servlet Container which supports Jsp 1.2 and Servlet 2.3. The official home page is www.mvnForum.com
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Kusaba X is a continuation of the Kusaba imageboard software, which Trevor has quit supporting. While other Kusaba derivatives are adding more bloat than functionality, Kusaba X is determined on adding functionality first. http://kusabax.cultnet.net
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Synchronet BBS Utilities
Suite of utilities for Linux SBBS Operators
Makes running a Synchronet BBS on Linux easier. Includes a backup script, management console, startup script, and other useful utilities. Only tested on Ubuntu... Now designed to run as the user "bbsowner" rather than root. No need to use sudo command anymore. -
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php Net is a light-weight flexible forum based website software package that uses object-oriented programming and the MySQL database. It's purpose is to act as a fast (and free) alternative to other forum packages which are noticably slow.
