Enigma 1/2 BBS
Enigma 1/2 BBS is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Social & Forums category, licensed BSD-2-Clause and written mainly in JavaScript. It ships a Docker image. It has 673 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
- Social & Forums
- JavaScript
- BSD-2-Clause
- Docker
- Active
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 673
- Forks
- 129
- Open issues
- 26
- Commits, last 12 months
- 323
- Last commit
- Oct 26, 2026
- Latest release
- No releases
- Created
- Oct 28, 2015
- License
- BSD-2-ClauseOpen source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 26, 2026, 323 commits in 12 months.
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 323 |
| Latest release | No GitHub releases |
| Releases, last 12 months | 0 |
| Releases, all time | 0 |
| Open issues | 26 |
| Open pull requests | 11 |
| Good first issues | 1 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | No |
| Created | Oct 28, 2015 |
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About Enigma 1/2 BBS
Enigma 1/2 is a modern, multi-platform BBS engine with unlimited "callers" and legacy DOS door game support.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/NuSkooler/enigma-bbs.
Topics
- bbs
- retro
- retrocomputing
- telnet
- ansi
- bulletin-board
- ascii
- terminal
- activitypub-server
- fidonet
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Is Enigma 1/2 BBS free and open source?
Yes. Enigma 1/2 BBS is open-source software released under the BSD-2-Clause license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Enigma 1/2 BBS with Docker?
Yes. Enigma 1/2 BBS provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
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Is Enigma 1/2 BBS actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Enigma 1/2 BBS was on Oct 26, 2026 with 323 commits in the past twelve months. It had 26 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.