🪄 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…

Mediabot v3 — Runtime Safety and Timer Consistency Pass

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This pass continued the defensive cleanup of Mediabot v3, with a focus on the paths that run continuously or during important runtime events:

• authentication checks;
• autologin updates;
• channel object database method…

Exact Lookups and DB Safety Pass

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This pass continued the cleanup work on Mediabot v3 after the previous output-pagination and LIKE-escaping work.

The focus this time was more internal:

• replacing accidental SQL LIKE lookups with exact = lookups where the value is an i…

Mediabot v3 — Async eval, botNotice hardening, help filtering (May 2026)

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Audit of snapshot 20260503. Six modules touched. The main story is the completion of the async .eval pipe read, a missing truncation in botNotice, a repeated prepare() in the ban list loop, two stra…

Mediabot v3 — Command Output Polish, Safer Matching, and Runtime Hardening

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This development pass focused on improving Mediabot v3 without changing its spirit.

The main goals were simple:

• make long IRC outputs readable instead of truncated;
• avoid accidental SQL wildcard …

📜 Revelio Pages: Paginated searchcmd Results and MariaDB-Safe LIKE Matching

This Mediabot v3 update improves an existing user-facing command:

searchcmd

The goal was to make command search output more readable and to fix a real MariaDB SQL escaping issue discovered during …