Hey, all. Some chat changes have been cooking for a while, and some are unexpectedly upon us. But here we go.
First off: Nala is going to be retired by request of Aelanna. We don't yet have a time frame for this, but expect it to happen soon. We are now in the market for a new channel bot. Does not need to be run by a channel operator. Does need to be approved by me. Discuss criteria with me on IRC if you have something in mind. Do not invite any new chatbot to 19 in the interim, until I say otherwise.
Second off: Draft critique will be allowed in #site17. Helping newbies will take priority in 17. For now, anyone who's a site member (or extremely longtime 19 member) should feel welcome to critique things in 17, just as as they would in 19 (but leave other questions to staff). People who aren't site members should be encouraged to get their app accepted before getting critique.
Beyond that, I'm gonna leave it to ops & staff respectively to deal with this as they see fit. We'll edit the chat guide to reflect this tomorrow (wanna discuss phrasing with people online), barring unforeseen developments.
Third off: +R will be removed from #site19, and the Mibbit app will be restored to the Chat Guide page. But we're not going to have a banbot now, you say! Well, you're right. So how are we going to do this?
- We'll create an O5 page to record permanent bans. We'll keep a list of them there for reference.
- We'll then wipe the banlist of all but the most recent bans to clear up space (I might make one or two exceptions).
- I will bring in help as needed to deal with the influx. I have a plan to deal with this, after putting a lot of thought towards the issue, but we'll get to that later. (I'll discuss it with chatops on chat tomorrow if possible.)
All this should be implemented sometime tomorrow as well, again barring unforeseen developments.