seenserv

[kaniini]

implement a seenserv for atheme -- should be pretty simple to do.

use a patricia tree to index seenserv db entries by nickname and prune them occasionally based on time. other ideas: hook into WHOWAS command...

[HelixSpiral]

What exactly do you mean by seenserv? Couldn't you just use the nickserv 'last seen' time?

[kaniini]

seenserv is a hybserv service that is basically a giant whowas database. nickserv 'last seen' times are associated only with registered nicknames, running atheme without an authentication service (e.g. without nickserv) is an entirely valid configuration.

[hackthecode]

SeenServ is very popular service among ordinary users. With it, users can search for information about other
users, such as when recently logged in IRC whether nickname is registered or not.
Also can use seen as a nickname and the host and to earn example last five matches.

[Arkadietz]

Awesome... This is such a good idea! Make it real pls :)

[PVasileff]

I have a very good suggestion, in case you decide to add Seen / SeenServ atheme as a service. In one network I found very interesting Seenserv that can seen and host to ask him the number of results to show. I know this is a lot of code, but I think it would be a big plus for atheme services. Here to HELP Seenserv that I mentioned above:

(14:01:32) Vasilev: help
(14:01:32) SeenServ: Syntax: SEEN [nickname][[!]ident@hostmask] [d(NUM)] [s(NUM)] [+|-]

(14:01:33) SeenServ: [nickname] - nickname to query for
(14:01:33) SeenServ: [ident] - ident(also known as username) to query for
(14:01:33) SeenServ: [hostmask>] - hostmask(ip address or hostname) to query for
(14:01:33) SeenServ: [d(NUM)] - specifies (up to) how many results to return, valid values are 1-5, default is 1
(14:01:33) SeenServ: [s(NUM)] - specifies results offset to help you search for more than 5 matches, default is 0
(14:01:33) SeenServ: [+|-] - search for identified(+) or not identified(-) to services users only
(14:01:33) SeenServ: IRC-style wild chars '*' and '?' can be used for nickname, ident and/or hostmask.

[moontaker]

Sounds great. I say => go for it!

[jdhore]

@PVasileff We'd likely support many options. We've implemented similar fine-grained searching options for ALIS, so implementing them for SeenServ shouldn't be too difficult (assuming we decide to implement SeenServ).

[jillest]

Given that most users are invisible (+i), searching by ident or host will be rather useless (as in /who). Therefore, seenserv cannot do much more than search by exact nick -- a slightly different version of /whowas.

[kaniini]

I am unconvinced that we actually need this given that there is now a protocol module to enhance the last-seen information in nickserv. "Oh, but what about unregistered nicks?" Perhaps they should register. Don't know what to tell them, honestly.

We'll accept a patch adding SeenServ if someone brings one forward and it is sufficiently efficient.