Telegram bots

[Dream of Omnimaga]

It might be somewhere in your Documents and settings/appdata/roaming/username/HP Prime or something.

But yeah we can't satisfy everyone really. Just because you prefer Matrix doesn't mean that everyone will accept to ditch Telegram and move to Matrix/IRC even if we kill the Telegram bridge.

And I see about the Omninet bridge. Ideally @Streetwalrus should find an EFnet server that allows the Telegram bot in (and allows it to work) so we can ditch Omninet entirely

[bb010g]

And I see about the Omninet bridge. Ideally @Streetwalrus should find an EFnet server that allows the Telegram bot in (and allows it to work) so we can ditch Omninet entirely

EFnet wouldn't? They already allow the WalrusIRC and Omninet linkers.

But yeah we can't satisfy everyone really. Just because you prefer Matrix doesn't mean that everyone will accept to ditch Telegram and move to Matrix/IRC even if we kill the Telegram bridge.

15:48:50 <bb010g> We've got 3-5 active Telegram bridge users, and I think they would be willing to try out Matrix, personally. At least 1 would.

Those 3-5 being, in order of (apparent) use, @aeTIos, @bb010g (myself), @Luke Hardison, @Cumred_Snektron, and @p4nix. I think we could convince them to try out Matrix for a similar/better experience for a week or so before deciding. Matrix does have the advantage of an IRC bridge that has actual accounts instead of one with prefixes. I'll see if I can roll one out quickly on my Azure instance, in fact.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

I never understood why juju was unable to get the bot to connect to any server. I'M thinking he just didn't try every one of them, because it's impossible that our botnet would conneect fine then one bot in particular can't connect to any EFNet server in existence.

As for Telegram you also forgot @gogogoluke . Also who is Luke Hardison ?

[bb010g]

As for Telegram you also forgot @gogogoluke . Also who is Luke Hardison ?

...his real name on Telegram. I don't know? They're the same person?

[Snektron]

And I see about the Omninet bridge. Ideally @Streetwalrus should find an EFnet server that allows the Telegram bot in (and allows it to work) so we can ditch Omninet entirely

EFnet wouldn't? They already allow the WalrusIRC and Omninet linkers.

But yeah we can't satisfy everyone really. Just because you prefer Matrix doesn't mean that everyone will accept to ditch Telegram and move to Matrix/IRC even if we kill the Telegram bridge.

15:48:50 <bb010g> We've got 3-5 active Telegram bridge users, and I think they would be willing to try out Matrix, personally. At least 1 would.

Those 3-5 being, in order of (apparent) use, @aeTIos, @bb010g (myself), @Luke Hardison, @Cumred_Snektron, and @p4nix. I think we could convince them to try out Matrix for a similar/better experience for a week or so before deciding. Matrix does have the advantage of an IRC bridge that has actual accounts instead of one with prefixes. I'll see if I can roll one out quickly on my Azure instance, in fact.

Im not really in the mood for ANOTHER chat client. I already use whatsapp, telegram and hangouts so then ill probably use the site's irc

[aetios]

I agree with Cumred on this one - using yet another client is probably a bit annoying.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

As for Telegram you also forgot @gogogoluke . Also who is Luke Hardison ?

...his real name on Telegram. I don't know? They're the same person?

He has a CW account but he never posted. We should hand him plenty of

On a side note @Juju and @Streetwalrus now the entire WIRC link is down. Empty user list, EFNet link down, etc.

[novenary]

It's back now. The new bot supports hosting pictures sent from telegram as well and handles everything much better in general.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Yay! Thank for the great work . Does it auto-delete old pictures?

[novenary]

Not sure what it does, but for the pictures that haven't been deleted, they're available there.

Otherwise you can also access them from the group's media history.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Ok. AeTIos will need to watch his disk space usage, then.

[novenary]

I'll have to figure out if there's a way to delete old pictures without confusing the bot (I know it doesn't reupload stickers for example, is just resends the same link each time).

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Mapping Walrii smileys to stickers would be nice

[novenary]

That's something I could look into once I get to rewriting the whole stack. The problem is that on Telegram, the bot is a single "user" just like on IRC, and for stickers there is no way to attach text afaik, so we can't know who sent them. I can definitely make it work in the Telegram => others direction though.
W/OIRC are aware of the cross-network syncing so that can't cause any problem thankfully.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Yeah that's what I thought. Plus Juju could probably have made WalrusIRC so that if it detects a Walrii sticker then it replaces the text with a smiley. Kinda like a word filter, unless that's what you meant?