Tips for following extremely low traffic channels?
reddit / irc

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eterps · 2019-11-05 11:15

Any tips for following extremely low traffic channels? (f.i. channels
for obscure programming languages where there are burst of messages
once or twice a month)

Is there some way to get notifications or summaries per e-mail for
instance?

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ExBritNStuff · 2019-11-05 12:27

What operating system and client do you use?  Do you need to know
immediately a message comes in so you can respond, or is a daily
summary or whatever what you are after?  All those will depend on the
best way to handle it.

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eterps · 2019-11-05 13:49

I use Arch on a laptop. I don't have an IRC client that suits me ATM.
Daily, weekly or monthly summary would be fine.

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ExBritNStuff · 2019-11-05 14:14

Honestly the way I'd handle it then is to use IRSSI running on some
permanently running system (VPS or whatever), have it log channels to
files, then write a shell script to E-Mail those files on whatever
schedule you want.

Of course if you're idling in the channels, which is required to make
this happen, you can just read the scrollback every time you log in.

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eterps · 2019-11-05 14:21

Yeah I guessed a permanently running system with custom scripts would
be required for this use-case. I just couldn't imagine this use case
to be more common so I decided to ask this subreddit first.

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sim642 · 2019-11-05 15:40

Either run an IRC client on a VPS or something, or rely on a bouncer
like ZNC, which can be also self-hosted but possibly hosted by someone
else.

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MachaHack · 2019-11-06 10:24

If they're on a network supported by botbot you could ask the channel
owners to set that up so you can browse logs on the web:
http://botbot.me/

(I'm sure there's other services and self hosted alternatives too if
preferable, that's just the one I've seen in a number of python
channels)

This would be an alternative to having your own always on system.

EDIT: Looks like it shut down for new logs/channels last year :(