Hi,
we have separated the IRC channels #lix and #neolemmix. There is interesting discussion about both games, and some of us already sit in both channels. namida is happy with this separation, which is very important to me.
Current solution:We're relaying
this subset of all boards to #lix. We're relaying posts as notifications, not as messages.
Old first post:Mindless's bot __ is relaying Lemmingsforums posts as follows: The Lix board is relayed to #lix, and everything else is relayed to #neolemmix.
Proxima wasn't happy about this change, because he relies on #lix for seeing new LF posts. On the other hand, I like the reduced bloat in the
#lix channel logs, and Ramond is annoyed by any bot activity. What's your stance?
Furthermore, __ is now sending
notifications, not
messages. Messages are what people send when they type text and send it. IRC clients treat messages as more important than notifications. Notifications are about as important as joins/leaves of other users. Notifications aren't logged in the Nordicbots logs -- very good.
Alternatives for automatic notification about the Lix-unrelated content:
- Use the forum's news feed (RSS, Atom).
- Sit in both IRC channels, #lix and #neolemmix.
- Ask Mindless to go back to relaying all posts to #lix, as notifications.
- Ask Mindless to relay the Lix board, and all engine-independent boards, as notifications.
The forum's news feed needs a standalone program. [A modern browser is enough. >_>] If you don't use feeds for any other website, it's strange to install an extra tool to run in the background.
Since we have many posts per day, I've configured my feed reader to download the recent 60 posts every 20 minutes. You can configure the time in the program, and the number of posts in the feed URL:
http://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?type=rss;action=.xml;limit=60-- Simon