I’ve gotten a chance to look at the new multi-server /notify functionality in XChat, and I still think that Watch for Me does better. I’m going to keep using the plugin, personally, which means that I’m willing to keep supporting it too. If anyone has any features they’d like to see, or bugs to report, […]
Well, I headed over to the XChat channel on irc.freenode.net to recruit some testers for my Watch for Me plugin. However, I instead found out that XChat 2.6.8 already incorporated this feature! Oh well… at the very least, it’s still useful for folks like me who are running a version of XChat prior to 2.6.8.
XChat, for all its benefits, has a pretty lousy notification system. Saying /notify SomeFriend is easy enough, but the problem is that “SomeFriend” is unlikely to have the same nick across servers — and XChat applies the notify list to all servers that you log into. Furthermore, if you’re paranoid (like me), it’s quite apparent […]
