Add a method to see who is online on IRC in a channel

[jvperrin]

Currently you can reply to someone (who is on IRC) from Slack (or mention them in a message) and they might not even be online! One way I'm thinking would be decent for this is to have a slash command to show the user who issued the command who is online without spamming the whole channel. It could also just give feedback directly to a user if the person they mentioned (with username: syntax to keep things simple) is not online. Filtering out the Slack users should be reasonably easy too and that would keep the list shorter to read.

[dkess]

We should handle this with MemoServ, which is supported by Inspircd. We just have to figure out how to install it.

[jvperrin]

... why? This is for people on Slack to see who is online in IRC, so how would MemoServ help with that as opposed to just a simple /who and report to Slack?

[dkess]

Oh nvmd I misunderstood the issue. MemoServ can be used to send messages to people who are offline, but afaik it won't say if they are online or not.

[jvperrin]

Oh ok, yeah if it could tell who is online then that would work too.

[ja5087]

Using a Slack slash command would require that we expose this information via a response to a POST request, which I'm not sure slackbridge is the best place for. Notifying them on-mention should be fairly doable though.