🧙 Expelliarmus Maxima — Mediabot v3 Deep Audit Sessions (May 2026)

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Over a series of intensive audit sessions covering 43 snapshots, every module in Mediabot v3 was reviewed for bugs, security issues, and improvement opportunities. This post summarises all the work done since…

🪄 Mischief Managed: Better Admin Tools, Safer User Commands, and Smarter Public Help

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This update is a broad maintenance and feature pass across several parts of the bot: admin tooling, user commands, public help, and OpenAI/tellme configuration.

The goal was not only to fix bu…

🧹 Safer APIs, Cleaner Contexts, and Better YouTube Results

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This update is another maintenance pass focused on reliability, defensive parsing, and cleaner command behavior.

The work is not about adding big flashy features. It is about making the bot harder to break when APIs re…

🛡️ Safer Command Wrappers and Chanset Permission Fixes

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This update is a maintenance and reliability pass focused on command wrappers, malformed context handling, and a permission bug that affected chanset.

The theme is simple: commands should not crash or deny valid users be…

🧙 X Links, YouTube Polish, and Old Spell Repairs

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This update is another focused reliability pass. It improves URL title handling, especially for X/Twitter links, and fixes a small but very real legacy YouTube bug.

The goal was to keep the bot practical on real IRC channels, wh…

🪄 Cleaner Links, Safer Helpers, and Fewer Gremlins

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🪄 Cleaner links, safer helpers, and fewer Perl gremlins

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This update is another maintenance and reliability pass focused on the parts of the bot that users actually feel every day: URL titles, T…

Installer Hardening, Perl Cleanups, and Live Test Stability

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Mediabot v3: installer hardening, Perl cleanups, and stronger regression tests

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This update is a maintenance and reliability pass focused on the installer, helper scripts, regression test…

Cleaner Configs, Safer Defaults, and Better Install Documentation

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Mediabot v3: cleaner configs, safer defaults, and a much clearer Debian 13 install path

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This update is another cleanup and reliability pass for Mediabot v3. The main goal was simpl…

Mediabot v3 — Configuration Cleanup, Libera NickServ, and Safer Partyline Eval

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Mediabot v3: cleaner generated configs, Libera NickServ, and safer partyline eval

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This update is another maintenance-focused step for Mediabot v3. It is not about addi…

Mediabot v3 — Cleaner Help, Safer Dispatch, and Better Configuration Samples

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Mediabot v3: safer command dispatch, real internal help, and cleaner sample configuration

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This update is mostly about reliability, maintainability, and making Mediabot v…