What do you look for in an IRCd?

darkwarrior · Lurker Joined: 02 Aug 2008 Posts: 172

Besides stability and performance, what do you look for in an IRCd? What makes you select one IRCd over another? I'm not just asking if its the features and/or abilities that you go for, I'm asking what the features are that you look for. As you might know from a previous post, I have decided to continue development of TESX, a java based ircx server, so I am just fishing for ideas of what to add/modify on it.

Anarchy · Posted: Oct 10, 2008 7:51pm Post subject:

well for one if its going to be IRCx, make sure it has /access /props /events and a few other IRCx commands that i love Very Happy

darkwarrior · Lurker Joined: 02 Aug 2008 Posts: 172

What do those commands do?

katsklaw · Guru Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 1122

http://www.valinor.sorcery.net/docs/ircx.txt
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/187991

darkwarrior · Lurker Joined: 02 Aug 2008 Posts: 172

Thank you kat!

katsklaw · Guru Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 1122

Actually if you had a persistant channel mode, it would make /access and /prop more useful and could be considered a basic services replacement.

A persistant channel mode is a mode that reserves all the channels settings, such as topic, ban list and modes even when there are 0 users in the channel. Conventionally with no users in a channel all it's settings are lost since the channel is effectively destroyed. In this case it can also reserve /access and /prop data as well.

Another suggestion is to save channel info to a db of sorts so when the ircd is restarted, the chanel info can be preserved.

Programs like IRCX Pro have also a built in services interface without adding pseudo-clients.

Anarchy · Posted: Oct 11, 2008 4:59pm Post subject:

IRCx servers are fun to use, and you can be creative and make new modes and junk also.