#mezzanine IRC channel now has a web client and message archive

[Stephen McDonald]

Hi all,

I've been working on a new project called Gnotty. It's a web-based IRC client and message archive, as well as IRC bots that have a bunch of features.

The main use case for Gnotty was to provide a better experience for the Mezzanine IRC channel by providing a web client and message archive that people could potentially find their answers to problems if they've been discussed previously in the IRC channel - so Gnotty is now integrated into the Mezzanine project's website.

If you've ever wanted to jump onto the IRC channel but don't have an IRC client installed, or want to search the message archive, you can just go to Gnotty on the Mezzanine site and chat from there.

Gnotty on Mezzanine - http://mezzanine.jupo.org/irc/

Github project - https://github.com/stephenmcd/mezzanine

Blog post on making Gnotty - http://blog.jupo.org/2012/11/18/mobile-irc-with-bonus-robots/

PS: The bot was initially set up in a very noisy mode which some of you may have noticed - I've since turned the chatter off, so now all it does is log the messages for the archive on the Mezzanine site.

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Stephen McDonald
http://jupo.org

[Josh Cartmell]

Hey Steve, I just checked it out, pretty slick!  I enjoyed the write up as well.

I wonder if their is some way you could store the irc session in the django session (or wherever) so that if you navigate away from http://mezzanine.jupo.org/irc/ (for example you go to the archive) and then come back you are still logged into irc.  I haven't looked through the code and have no experience with IRC development so I have no idea if that is feasible.

I think the IRC archive is a great contribution to the community.

Also, for anyone looking for it here is the github project: https://github.com/stephenmcd/gnotty (I think you accidentally linked to the Mezzanine project Steve).

[Stephen McDonald]

Thanks Josh. That's a great idea about maintaining sessions, it'd take it to a whole other level. 

[Eduardo Rivas]

I'm getting this error: Took too long to connect, please try again. That's all I've been able to see :(

[Sebastián Magrí]

This is really nice Stephen, Kudos!