ChatSpike Migrates to Atheme IRC Services
9 June 2008
"ChatSpike is migrating to Atheme IRC Services (from ircservices 5 which we have been using since we started, 6 years ago)" Brain said to IRC-Junkie.

W00t explains why IRC Services no longer serves the network. "IRC services was and is a big influence on the IRC landscape, to me. It was one of the first packages to be OSS'd, it was actively developed over a long timeframe, and incorporated user feedback. It supported a wide range of IRC daemons, and was also one of the earliest packages to get modules support"

Its age was showing in the flexibility however, w00t, who is also a developer of Atheme IRC services explains: "some features have taken us hundreds of lines of code to write, including database handling and other horrific and repetitive code. Atheme has a more streamlined design that lets us tackle this in a RAD style, meaning new toys take a lot less time to get from the ideas stage to the point where our users can play with them."

Additionally the maintainer of IRCservices Andy Church will be leaving the project soon making future updates too unsure for Chatspike's needs.

Another reason to switch to Atheme is its better integration with the networks IRCd, InspIRCd. "In atheme [...] we can add and customize things specifically *for* ChatSpike a few light years quicker than we could in the past, new commands, new website integration features, anything becomes feasible instead of a pain in the ass."

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