Our karma tracking IRC bot, DecBot recently reached 20,000 points total. A while ago I decided that once it reached 20k points, that I would reset the points so we could start over fresh! Coincidentally, this happened around the 3 year anniversary of DecBot's existence on the #cemetech IRC channel, as well as the end of the year! Because of all these events happening, we decided also to release a history of DecBot, so you can all see how it's improved over the years!
~28 Dec 2010 - DecBot 1.0:
Java-based with pircbot. Kept track of karma and could link people.
Used text files for scores and links.
Discussions were had about the inclusion of "--", but ultimately decided against.
09 Jan 2011 - DecBot 1.1:
Added abuse protection in the form of subtracting a point if you "++" yourself.
Added auto-rejoin on kick.
13 Jan 2011 - DecBot 1.2:
Added ability to check karma from saxjax.
Discussions were had about "^++", but ultimately decided against.
13 Mar 2011 - DecBot 1.3:
!unlink was added.
Base conversion was added.
Both required being voiced to use.
27 Mar 2011 - DecBot 1.4:
!calc was added, used some sort of Java scripting library (not really sure which one), required voice.
Because it used a scripting engine, arbitrary java code could be run, but it was sandboxed.
03 May 2011 - DecBot 1.5:
Voice requirement for !calc and !base removed.
04 May 2011 - DecBot 1.5.1:
!clac added as an alias to !calc (because I suck at typing).
11 May 2011 - DecBot 1.6:
Calc scripting engine now times out after 1 second, and output has a max of 50 chars, and new lines are stripped.
13 Jul 2011 - DecBot scores site created:
Lists all scores and the total
Has a graph that shows top 50 scores
06 Aug 2011 - DecBot 2.0 is live!
Moved from files to SQL database, bot and site updated.
All links and scores preserved
!calc broken sometime in the transition
14 Aug 2011 - DecBot 2.1:
!calc fixed
Functions/variables added to scripting engine.
20 Nov 2011 - DecBot 3.0 tries to make it's way onto the net:
Written in C#
Uses IronPython for scripting engine
28 Apr 2012 - DecBot3 stays up for a while
08 May 2012 - DecBot3 goes down beacuse it's having a hard time with the library
06 Aug 2012 - tab separated scores website added for data processing stuff.
24 Dec 2012 - DecBot 3.5:
Uses a new irc library that is more stable
!calc now driven through wolfram|alpha
!karma without a user will now return the karma of the requesting user.
Uses my DynamicConfig library for configuration
01 Jan 2013 - DecBot 3.6:
Fixed some small things in !calc:
1. If there's only one solution for a problem, it does not preface it with the name.
2. If the output is too long, it now gives you a link to the results.
Added command logging
27 Dec 2013 - About 3 years old, and 20k hit!
Scores reset just for fun
Old scores preserved for historical purposes
28 Dec 2013 - DecBot 3.7:
Added some more stuff to config file instead of being hardcoded
Added !links to list links on a person
Some extra random responses added so it does more than just "\o/"
We hope you've enjoyed this little look into DecBot's history, and here's to three more years of DecBot
DecBot's history wrote:
~28 Dec 2010 - DecBot 1.0:
Java-based with pircbot. Kept track of karma and could link people.
Used text files for scores and links.
Discussions were had about the inclusion of "--", but ultimately decided against.
09 Jan 2011 - DecBot 1.1:
Added abuse protection in the form of subtracting a point if you "++" yourself.
Added auto-rejoin on kick.
13 Jan 2011 - DecBot 1.2:
Added ability to check karma from saxjax.
Discussions were had about "^++", but ultimately decided against.
13 Mar 2011 - DecBot 1.3:
!unlink was added.
Base conversion was added.
Both required being voiced to use.
27 Mar 2011 - DecBot 1.4:
!calc was added, used some sort of Java scripting library (not really sure which one), required voice.
Because it used a scripting engine, arbitrary java code could be run, but it was sandboxed.
03 May 2011 - DecBot 1.5:
Voice requirement for !calc and !base removed.
04 May 2011 - DecBot 1.5.1:
!clac added as an alias to !calc (because I suck at typing).
11 May 2011 - DecBot 1.6:
Calc scripting engine now times out after 1 second, and output has a max of 50 chars, and new lines are stripped.
13 Jul 2011 - DecBot scores site created:
Lists all scores and the total
Has a graph that shows top 50 scores
06 Aug 2011 - DecBot 2.0 is live!
Moved from files to SQL database, bot and site updated.
All links and scores preserved
!calc broken sometime in the transition
14 Aug 2011 - DecBot 2.1:
!calc fixed
Functions/variables added to scripting engine.
20 Nov 2011 - DecBot 3.0 tries to make it's way onto the net:
Written in C#
Uses IronPython for scripting engine
28 Apr 2012 - DecBot3 stays up for a while
08 May 2012 - DecBot3 goes down beacuse it's having a hard time with the library
06 Aug 2012 - tab separated scores website added for data processing stuff.
24 Dec 2012 - DecBot 3.5:
Uses a new irc library that is more stable
!calc now driven through wolfram|alpha
!karma without a user will now return the karma of the requesting user.
Uses my DynamicConfig library for configuration
01 Jan 2013 - DecBot 3.6:
Fixed some small things in !calc:
1. If there's only one solution for a problem, it does not preface it with the name.
2. If the output is too long, it now gives you a link to the results.
Added command logging
27 Dec 2013 - About 3 years old, and 20k hit!
Scores reset just for fun
Old scores preserved for historical purposes
28 Dec 2013 - DecBot 3.7:
Added some more stuff to config file instead of being hardcoded
Added !links to list links on a person
Some extra random responses added so it does more than just "\o/"
We hope you've enjoyed this little look into DecBot's history, and here's to three more years of DecBot
