Walraven/SIMud

Just a minor update here. The IRC daemon is as done as I am planning on making it for a long while. Some of the messaging has been cleaned up and it now keeps track of listening users.

You can see who’s on IRC with the normal ‘who’ command:

% who
                         -----== PLAYERS ==-----
   [Admin]     Allaryin needs to write quest journals (right adjusted)
   [Admin]     Malap has several legs (chaotic banana)
  [Ancient]    Polar bears enjoy eating Sora (lawful good) [idle]
                        -----== CHAT USERS ==-----
    [irc]      @Acius
    [irc]      @allaryin
    [irc]      @Harkins

                 --== Players: 1, Wizards: 2, IRC: 3 ==--

When I add jabber support, it will be integrated together with this. Linking of IRC/MUD accounts is future tech that I don’t want to think about quite yet… but when the futuretime comes, I’ll try to set it up so all three services play happy together somehow.

allaryin news chat, irc

There has been a healthy level of activity recently. GPF/Shentino has made a few fixes to Witac and I know Acius has done… something.

Apart from my posts here and lots of discussions with community members, I’ve just launched a pair of new (big) features.
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allaryin news chat, forums, irc

(This is a repost of my original writeup on the subject of integrating mud chat with jabber. It was posted on my personal blog back in November ‘06.)

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Mud <-> outside world communication. It’s an idea that I’ve been throwing around for months (years now). I’ve given up on it several times. And today, it reared its ugly little head again when McKay (Sora) poked me about something vaguely related.

The incarnation of the idea this time around is simple enough that I’m willing to commit to producing it in the nearish future. It’s simpler than previous ideas but still adds a lot of value to the game - and by virtue of being simpler it has the added bonus of being more likely to see its way into implementation
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allaryin idea, repost chat, jabber, plans