Features

ANetBBS aims to be a complete modern BBS — classic in spirit, modern
in plumbing. Below is the full feature inventory.

Access

Web Access (HTTP/HTTPS, real-time updates via WebSockets)
Telnet (TCP 2233)
SSH (TCP 2234, password and key auth)
Rlogin (TCP 513, used by game-server style auto-login — off by
default, sysop must enable it)
PETSCII (TCP 6400/6401, Commodore 64/128 terminal support —
off by default, sysop must enable it)
Gemini — not a real Gemini-protocol (TLS+1965) listener; your
gemtext capsule is exposed over plain HTTP at /gemini/<username>
Finger (TCP 79, user info)

Message Boards — local discussion forums with categories,
pinning, locking, reactions, polls, mentions, and attachments
Echomail — FidoNet-style global discussion areas with full
BinkP networking
Netmail — point-to-point FidoNet mail
Private Messages — one-to-one mail between local users
Instant Messages — Inter-BBS real-time IM via the MSP
protocol (TCP 18)

File Library with file areas, categorization,
uploads, downloads, descriptions, ratings, and virus scanning
FTP access (off by default, FTP_ENABLED) — browse/download file
areas with any plain FTP client; anonymous read-only + authenticated
uploads where permitted, see Files
TIC Processor for FidoNet TIC echo distribution
QWK mail packets for offline reading

Game Center — 20 built-in browser games (puzzle, action,
cards/casino, strategy, RPG) plus terminal doors, all in one lobby
Doors — door game subsystem driving:
Native Synchronet (over rlogin)
DOS doors via DOSBox-staging + TCP nullmodem bridge
Web doors (native HTML/JS games)
ANetCRAFT — a bundled, pure-Python Minecraft-like survival door,
active by default, no separate install needed. (Not the same thing
as the standalone ANetCRAFT-Door C# project — same name, different
codebase.)

Chat — multi-user chat with channels
IRC Bridge — relays one local MRC room to one IRC
server/channel (sysop sets this up in the database; no admin UI)
IRC Client — each logged-in user can connect to their own IRC
server, nick, and channels from the web
MRC — the Multi-Relay Chat protocol used by many BBSes
Telegram Bridge
Sysop Page — bell the sysop, see who's around

RSS Reader — built-in feed aggregator (web + terminal)
Bulletins — sysop-curated short notices
Site Pages — pages the sysop hand-authors
Personal Pages — user-edited homepages on the BBS
Image Gallery
Stats — site activity, top users, leaderboards
Nodelist — FidoNet/network nodelist browser
Ebook Reader — search and read free public-domain books
(Project Gutenberg, via the Gutendex API) in the web or terminal UI
This wiki (/wiki/)

Sysop Control Panel — the Service Control Center (per-service
start/stop/restart, live CPU/RAM/thread graphs, listener health,
journal viewer), NodeSpy, who's online
Scheduled Events — cron-style maintenance jobs (log rotation,
SQLite VACUUM, security-update checks, nodelist generation, InterBBS
sync, arbitrary shell commands)
NodeSpy — view and kick live terminal sessions
Echomail Admin — networks, areas, BinkP polling
Doors Admin — register doors and game servers
RSS Admin — manage feeds
Files Admin — areas, virus scanner, batch tools
Themes — switch the dark theme palette per-user or globally
Backup — sqlite dump + asset archive
Tutorial — sysop onboarding walkthrough