Grove.io: Hosted, Searchable IRC Chat For Teams

This would be cool if it included what I think is the most useful aspect of IRC for teams: trainable IRC bots.

Back in 1999 - I used IRC to manage my IT org. We had two IT channels: one for IT staff, which we were all required to be logged into when on the clock - and another that was company wide, where users could jump on IRC to ask the IT/dev/support teams questions.

We used bots to train IT FAQ and system info...

So for example, we would type "DNS Server" and the bot would reply with the IP of the DNS server.

We could type in a hostname and the bot would reply with the system details we put in there.

So, i this had the capability of learning and storing data that was retrievable in this way, rather than simple search, I think it could be very useful.

User:"Whats the current version of ProductX"

Bot:"Product X current version is 1.1.2"

Will its model work well with an open source/community project – where you want to allow all walk-up participants, but need some moderator powers?

For example, can you edit the searchable logs to remove spam?

Just keep trying, I got 500s a couple of times too.

I was thinking something like this would come in handy the other day. Goes to show if you have an idea, chances are someone else is already thinking about it.

Sorry, our server is swamped right now. I'm working on it...

Update: I've made a few tweaks and it should be better now. fingers crossed