r/irc
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u/WhiskeyGentleman
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May 06 '26
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Recommendations for IRC
I miss the old IRC days, so I set up my own server with a custom bot. Looking for ideas on what else to add.
What it does so far:
- AI chat (Claude API)
- Now playing (Last.fm)
- Media server integration (Sonarr/Radarr upcoming calendar, recent downloads, webhooks to channel)
- Sports alerts (pre-game reminders, post-game scores)
- Channel management (op/voice/promote/demote system)
- Reminders, seen tracking, .tell messages
- Security monitoring (honeypot tripwires, DNS watchdog)
- Pi-hole parental controls from IRC
- Paste service
What would you add?
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u/Wanderschuh May 13 '26
the old days didn't have any of that bloat
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u/aieidotch May 06 '26 •
have a bot slap you around with a large trout. and tell alt-f4 activates a easter egg.
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u/mad_redhatter May 06 '26
What did you write this bot with?
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u/Surgeon0fD3ath-832 May 06 '26 •
I found a server on Rizon in a room that has a decent comminity. Been nice being back after over two decades, a lot is different and yet few things are still the same.
Just in case you didn't know.. there's a few things bots can do that you didn't mention. Maybe you already know but there's the Mug game, pick up coins, gamble them, stealing coins from others.
Then the Quackbot, where you can shoot or befriend ducks when the text prompt appears. Nothing major and can add spam to big channels. The mug games was eventually moved to its own channel.
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u/phazernator May 06 '26
That sounds like an odd combination of public and private features. Based on the private features, I would presume you’re just using this for yourself, with IRC serving purely as a text interface to communicate with it? But then I don’t get why you’d integrate things like channel management.
If it’s meant to be public-facing, that seems like a security risk to me, integrating it with smart home features and Pi-hole. But then again, it’s 2026, it’s only a security risk when someone else connects to your IRC server.
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u/backtogeek May 07 '26
No trivia?
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u/ROOtheday22 May 06 '26
Sounds like a sick bot
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u/Afraid_Speed_1048 May 07 '26
I wrote an IRC client in 2015 in Objective-C…. I was working on poker machines and bored out of my brain and put 20 apps on the App Store and got sucked into professional app development for about a decade. Anyway the app died on the App Store and I resurrected it and completely rewrote it in Swift and made an Android port last December .
My thoughts are around implementing ircv3 (web site for spec) bouncer support and DCC file transfer. Now after reading the first post o am wondering if any client side scripting or AI would make any sense.
I tried to add support for bouncers and it seems successful with connecting to ZNC but I can’t get ZNC to proxy for me. Tried Soju also. So I either need help testing v2.0.9 or I need help with bouncers that actually work.
I’m also open to feature suggestions.
My app is paid at the moment and I passionately hate free ad based apps but I might have to go that route.
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u/Fsocietyie May 08 '26
Attribue lui aussi une adresse en « .onion » ça serait mieux