jbnc

Not to defend rasengan (my opinion of him and his freenode tyrancy is severely negative and I fully support the actions of the ex-freenode now-Libera.Chat team) but as someone who previously had access to the Snoonet servers and as the developer of the open source IRC server software that Snoonet uses (InspIRCd) I can confirm that there was no message intercept ability on Snoonet as of a few months ago when I resigned. No SSH access was given to rasengan on any servers all of which were locked down pretty heavily to a small subset of staff including formerly myself. I think it is very unlikely that any surveillance capacity has been added since I resigned given that the remaining volunteers (who were not appointed by rasengan and many of whom predate rasengan's ownership of the network) are decent people who would not tolerate that. InspI

Having fun with IRC again lately, group is making a simple bouncer https://github.com/toc-irc/jbnc Simply connect to the port with a password and a bnc account is made for you. Yes we know it's open to abuse; all IP addresses are hashed through our webirc setup in gateway mode, so users are still unique. We'll add flood checks later; i'm sure a million connections making always on connections would crash it, I got it to crash at 7,500 connections This is all experimental as to have a foundation to build off of; other bouncer projects are great too (kiwi, znc etc) we're just looking to have fun and create. But the other stuff, such as bugs between bouncer and client and things not forwarding right/crashing for other reasons we are offering $10 per detailed bug (with description and suggestion on fix), and $20 for fixes coded I believe the

https://github.com/toc-irc/jbnc/blob/master/bouncer.js have you considered running a linter on this (and maybe not having 1k of lines in 1 file?)