mbweb — UI language and typography cleanup (April 2026)

English UI

All user-facing strings across app.js, routes/auth.js, lib/render.js and lib/mediabotRepository.js have been translated to English. This covers page titles, section headers, table headers, error messages, paginat…

mbweb — Refactoring and fixes round 2 (April 2026)

Context

Follow-up on the first audit pass. This article covers the six improvements and refactors applied after the initial bug fixes.

Changes

G — Dead code removed from viewHelpers.js

yesNo() and isEnabled()…

mbweb — Audit and fixes v0.2.x (April 2026)

Context

mbweb is the Node.js/Express web console for Mediabot v3. This article documents the bugs identified and fixed during the audit of snapshot 20260427-2350.

Fixes

#1 — Prometheus metrics block never rendered

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mbweb — Mediabot v3 web console

mbweb is the Node.js / Express web console for Mediabot v3.

It provides a web interface for existing Mediabot users, using the Mediabot database for authentication, profile data, channel visibility, radio status, commands, quotes, metrics, and privileged…

Radio stack on Debian 13: Icecast2, Liquidsoap, systemd, and bot integration

This write-up documents the radio stack we just set up for Mediabot v3 on Debian 13.

The goal was not to touch the existing production stream on port 15000, but to build a clean test instance on port …

Partyline restart handling is now properly fixed

We have just finished an important reliability improvement in Mediabot v3.

The goal was to make sure that when an IRC restart is triggered from the Partyline, the bot does not kill the whole process. Instead, it should drop the IR…

safer Partyline restart handling

We recently improved the way Mediabot v3 handles IRC restarts from the Partyline.

The goal was simple:
when an admin requests a restart, the bot should restart the IRC connection cleanly without killing the whole process. In other words, no br…

Partyline overhaul: Eggdrop-style features

Branch: master (3.2-dev) · Next release: 3.3

This session is a significant step toward making the Mediabot Partyline feel like a proper Eggdrop partyline. Seven features were added or reworked across Partyline.pm, Mediabot.pm, `Log.p…

Mediabot 3.2-dev — metrics, WHOIS refactor and test suite

Mediabot 3.2-dev moves forward on three important areas: Prometheus metrics, WHOIS-based user resolution, and automated testing.

This round of work is not just cosmetic. It finishes metrics that were still incomplete in 3.1, cleans up…

Monitoring Mediabot with Prometheus and Grafana

Mediabot can now expose Prometheus metrics and be monitored cleanly in Grafana.

The goal is simple:

• know whether the bot is running
• know whether it is still connected to IRC
• see channel activity
• see which commands are used the mos…