[DGD] The future of muds

[Felix A. Croes]

Muds are dying.

10 years ago we could still say that muds could survive as they were,
and that they were more innovative than their successors.  Now even
the staunch defenders are disappearing, and the innovators moved on
long ago.  Windows 7 ships without telnet client.

DGD could die with muds, or DGD could help you take the step to
switching to the web, running a client as a Facebook application so
that new players can find you again.  The currently ongoing move
to social networks and HTML5 may be the last good opportunity to
catch up with the present; it's still new territory and standards
are not high.

To return to the subject of features planned for my mudlib, here is
one feature that my mudlib will not offer: a telnet port.  No, not
even a binary port that telnet will know how to talk to.

Regards,
Felix Croes