The phone number auth is hilarious, this bbs doesn't have A phone number, this bbs has YOUR phone number!<p>(edited to add, and it needs Tradewars 2000 as a door game)
I love this and I've been thinking of something along these lines myself. Having an all-text site with a mouse-driven interface seems somehow wrong though.<p>I guess I'm just used to having things rescan whenever I hit a command. More BBSes please! Legend of Red Dragon!!
Are the pins sent by email via an SMS gateway? If so, why not just let people sign up with their email address?<p>I'd like to join in on the fun, but not with my personal phone number.
It's text-only like hacker news... but for useless chatter.<p>Bonus: doesn't work without a trackable, paying subscription to a cell carrier (some workarounds like Google Voice exist).