Hi there!
Those of you who occasionally hang out on various IRC channels will probably have come across some that use an IRC bot to pass on messages to people who are offline, or provide information on when a person was last seen, etc..
The basic idea is that such a thing would be useful to #Cemetech too, because it happens fairly often that one has to chase after someone else to tell them something and similar things. We do have PMs and SAX PMs, and we can simply highlight people when they are away from keyboard, however, the gap between those two options is pretty large. When PMs are just too over-elaborate and the person is not currently connected to the IRC channel, this option would come in handy.
There are open source implementations of such bots available, and I am ready to implement one from scratch or expand one of the available options to incorporate missing functionality and support saxjax. It would then be hosted on Cemetech, so the technical part should not be a problem.
Now, the question is, do you support such a thing? If you do, what functionality would you like to see that would fit this category? I currently think of passing messages and providing "last seen" information.
Those of you who occasionally hang out on various IRC channels will probably have come across some that use an IRC bot to pass on messages to people who are offline, or provide information on when a person was last seen, etc..
The basic idea is that such a thing would be useful to #Cemetech too, because it happens fairly often that one has to chase after someone else to tell them something and similar things. We do have PMs and SAX PMs, and we can simply highlight people when they are away from keyboard, however, the gap between those two options is pretty large. When PMs are just too over-elaborate and the person is not currently connected to the IRC channel, this option would come in handy.
There are open source implementations of such bots available, and I am ready to implement one from scratch or expand one of the available options to incorporate missing functionality and support saxjax. It would then be hosted on Cemetech, so the technical part should not be a problem.
Now, the question is, do you support such a thing? If you do, what functionality would you like to see that would fit this category? I currently think of passing messages and providing "last seen" information.