From 475570d57f64049bb47b74560c57d20ecc95164c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Oaks Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2017 07:38:33 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] docs: Add a very basic INFO document. --- docs/INFO.md | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/INFO.md diff --git a/docs/INFO.md b/docs/INFO.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..52ca682e --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/INFO.md @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +# Oragono Information + +Here's a bunch of misc info the Oragono server! + + +## Accounts and Channels + +Most IRC servers out there offer IRC account and channel registration through external +services such as NickServ and ChanServ. In Oragono, we bundle accounts and channel ownership +in as a native server feature instead! + +Because there's a lot of aspects of accounts/channels that haven't been specified as native +commands and all yet, Oragono includes the pseudo-clients NickServ and ChanServ to roughly +mimic the functionality that other IRCds get from services packages, in a user-facing set +of commands that's familiar to everyone. + +The plan is to move more features and functionality (such as channel registration, channel +permissions and all) over to native commands first and to use the NickServ/ChanServ as +legacy interfaces to access these functions. However, it's gonna be a while before all of +this is specified by someone like the IRCv3 WG. + + +## Rejected Features + +'Rejected' sounds harsh, but basically these are features I've decided I'm not gonna +implement in Oragono (at least, not until someone convinces me they're worth doing). + +### Force/Auto-Join Channels on Connect + +When a user connects, some IRC servers let you force-join them to a given channel. For +instance, this could be a channel like `#coolnet` for a network named CoolNet, a lobby +channel, or something similar. + +My main objection to having this feature is just that I don't like it that much. It doesn't +seem nice to forcibly join clients to a channel, and I know I'm always annoyed when networks +do it to me. + +To network operators that want to do this, I'd suggest instead mentioning the channel(s) in +your MOTD so that your users know the channels exist! If they want to join in, they can do +it from there :)