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chaosprime · 06-20-2008, 03:27 PM

One reason I'm interested in custom client development is that my feeling is that telnet, as a protocol, is a dead end because of the mind-bogglingly poor protocol implementations of most telnet clients and most telnet servers. There is just too much installed based of crap for it to ever go anywhere. Even 'real company' telnet product vendors aren't interested in improving their protocol support; I made a serious effort to communicate to VanDyke Software (makers of CRT and SecureCRT) how their character-mode support was broken, and got fobbed off with a cheap, easy "oh, the server is doing something wrong" (not the case, and obviously so to anyone who had actually read my detailed bug report). That leaves a lot of space in the area of interface that MUDs can't move forward in as long as they're hobbled by telnet.

06-20-2008, 03:27 PM	#33
chaosprime Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Home MUD: Lost Souls Posts: 199	Re: custom clients. Good or bad? One reason I'm interested in custom client development is that my feeling is that telnet, as a protocol, is a dead end because of the mind-bogglingly poor protocol implementations of most telnet clients and most telnet servers. There is just too much installed based of crap for it to ever go anywhere. Even 'real company' telnet product vendors aren't interested in improving their protocol support; I made a serious effort to communicate to VanDyke Software (makers of CRT and SecureCRT) how their character-mode support was broken, and got fobbed off with a cheap, easy "oh, the server is doing something wrong" (not the case, and obviously so to anyone who had actually read my detailed bug report). That leaves a lot of space in the area of interface that MUDs can't move forward in as long as they're hobbled by telnet.