This happens to me a lot.

1. Work flies me over to $some_location for a week. Said location either doesn't have IRC or I'm too swamped to check in.
2. On the way back home, I get back on IRC at the airport to touch base with a few people.
3. The following happens:

<webchick> Hey, so-and-so. Did you get the chance to look at the such-and-such issue? I have exactly 3 minutes before my plane boards.
<Druplicon> Such-and-such said Hey webchick, can you look at foo-issue [link]
<Druplicon> So-and-so said Hey webchick, can you look at bar-issue [link]
<Druplicon> That-guy said Hey webchick, this guy's being a jerk, can you tell him to frig off? [link]
<Druplicon> Another-guy said Hey webchick, can you come to $foo event in $some_location?
<Druplicon> This-time-a-girl said Hey webchick, don't even think about releasing a new beta until you've fixed baz-issue [link]
...

And so on. :P

It'd be nice to be able to say "Druplicon: stash messages 24 hours" or something so that it delayed telling me about them until I'm home and have a free 2 hours to look at all those links. Atm they just get lost.

Comments

Morbus Iff’s picture

Couldn't you just repaste them to yourself, using "remind me in 24 hours that …"?

Morbus Iff’s picture

Or even just cut and paste them into an email client and send them to yourself?

I get what you're saying, I do. But the cost of adding that functionality to the bot seems pretty high compared to its actual utility.

webchick’s picture

Yes, I could totally do that. Just it's easier to do actions from IRC when I'm on IRC.

I'm not aware of any of the underlying code/schema for Bot module, so if it's a pain in the butt to do this, feel free to won't fix. Just figured I'd suggest it since I was thinking about it. :)