Production-ready runtime, deployment tooling and documented upgrade path.
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Production IRC automation
Mediabot v3
A long-running IRC platform for community operations, memory and conversation — engineered in Perl, persisted in MariaDB and observable in production.
Stable 3.5 is the supported release. The active 3.6dev line is consolidating the plugin platform, command routing and per-channel behaviour without trading away operational safety.
Plugin API v3, one command doorway and finer per-channel controls.
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What it does
One runtime, four operational layers
IRC runtime
Resilient network handling, channel policy, roles, timers and controlled multi-network operation.
Community memory
Quotes, notes, reminders, facts, history and achievements backed by durable MariaDB state.
Conversation
Per-channel Hailo brains plus guarded OpenAI, Claude and Gemini helpers where communities opt in.
Operations
Systemd deployment, schema migrations, diagnostics, structured logs and Prometheus metrics.
Engineering archive
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Release and development notes
Mediabot after 3.1: from long-running beta to a real release baseline
Mediabot after 3.1: from long-running beta to a real release baseline Mediabot did not suddenly become interesting because a release tag was published. What changed with 3.1 is more important than a tag: the project finally crossed the line between a long-running, real-world IRC bot in active use and a release that…
Read the full note →Major refactoring milestone
After a long (very long) refactoring campaign, Mediabot finally migrated most of its command handling to a proper Context-based architecture. Yes, this includes: removing years of implicit state, surviving strict mode, fixing bugs that existed longer than some IRC networks, and arguing endlessly with ChatGPT (which…
Read the full note →Database changes: CHANNEL_PURGED
ALTER TABLE CHANNELPURGED ADD COLUMN purgedby VARCHAR(255) DEFAULT NULL; ALTER TABLE CHANNELPURGED ADD COLUMN purgedat DATETIME DEFAULT CURRENTTIMESTAMP;
Read the full note →Spotify integration demo
Read the full note →Charset and schema cleanup
I had to do this for a long time, sorry guys ALTER TABLE CHANNELLOG MODIFY ts DATETIME NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENTTIMESTAMP; ALTER TABLE RESPONDERS MODIFY responder VARCHAR(255) CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4unicodeci, MODIFY answer TEXT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4unicodeci; ALTER TABLE CHANNEL MODIFY…
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Public repository
Updated 08/10/2026, 18:49:16
Recent GitHub activity
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b8237f9MB807: let Flitwick teach the spellbook café and safe choices ☕🎲
