Development chronicle — mb565 to mb571 · 3.4dev

The castle’s oldest register had grown enormous: millions of entries, years of conversations, duplicated bookmarks, and enough paper to slow every new line written by the scribes.

This series of changes does not burn the past. It measures i…

Development chronicle — mb561 to mb564 · 3.4dev

The castle has received four new enchantments: a wiser horoscope, repaired multilingual prophecies, per-channel language choices, and a carefully guarded ban action for scripted moderation.

None of these changes alter the spirit of Mediabot…

Development chronicle — mb558 to mb560 · 3.4dev

For a long time, the achievement guardians performed their heaviest investigations right in the middle of the Great Hall. On a large IRC history, one unlucky message could therefore awaken an ancient SQL spell and freeze the room for far too l…

Mediabot v3 continues its 3.4 development cycle with the final missing piece of its latency observability work: named Scheduler tasks are now timed, logged and exported to Prometheus.

Previous rounds already covered user commands, partyline activity and event-loop stalls. The internal scheduled j…

Mediabot v3 continues its 3.4 development cycle with a new moderation capability for the external script bridge.

Scripts could already reply, send notices, write logs, arm timers and update their own channel topic. They can now also request the removal of an abusive user through a new kick acti…

Mediabot v3 continues its 3.4 development cycle with a major observability pass covering database health, event-loop stalls, latency distributions, script envelopes and partyline diagnostics.

This round does not add one isolated feature. It connects several parts of the bot so that slowdowns, rec…

Mediabot v3 continues its 3.4 development cycle with a focused reliability pass on database latency and first-command responsiveness.

The trigger was a very specific production symptom on one Undernet instance:

the first "m check" is slow by about 10 seconds
the following commands ar…

Mediabot v3 continues its 3.4 development cycle with a focused extension of the external script bridge.

Scripts could already reply, send notices, write logs and arm timers. They can now also change the topic of their own channel through a new guarded topic action.

This is the first script a…

Mediabot v3 continues its 3.4 development cycle with a new observability round for the external script bridge.

The bridge was already capable of running commands, reacting to channel events, carrying route-specific configuration and scheduling delayed callbacks.

This pass makes that activity v…

Mediabot v3 closes another major chapter of its 3.4 development cycle with a final round on the external script bridge.

This pass is about operational visibility, safe hot reloads and documentation that is tested as seriously as code.

The plugin system can now show its event cooldown windows, …