Mibbit Wiki:Wishlist

Welcome to the Wish List. If you would like a feature for Mibbit that isn't currently in it, suggest it here in the correct category. The "To Be Done Soon" category is for axod, the programmer of Mibbit. Put yours in the correct subcategory of "User Suggested Features". Use "Other" if you don't know.

To Be Done Soon

• implement /ignore
• Implement an option for ChanServ/NickServ/OperServ/MemoServ /msgs to go to a private message window, just like a regular user. Set this to "off" by default, as the current behavior is preferred by the majority of users(not me) EugeneKay (chat)
• If a user is not there, make that clear ON THE PM WINDOW! :)
• Fix /join 0 error
• Put left/right arrows up, with a down arrow on the right for a list of all in a dropdown fashion.
• Ability to embed client on your own website.
  1. Online/offline button, click to PM me
  2. Embeddable channel. Tied to a specific channel on specific server
  3. Complete IRC client embeddable
• Ability to log chat
• I guess this might have already been covered but it'd be nice if we had a service to connect to so that people developing Facebook applications could make use of this to write their own irc client but using these services.

User Suggested Features

Preferences

• switch to toggle play sound when my nick has been written, play sound when query is active
• Leave the default away/unaway behavior as is - 10 minutes or so. But change the default display setting so that it won't leave the little messages all over the place. This lets those users who want to know who's here or not know, but also makes it so us who really don't care aren't spammed with "xxxxx is away" messages(Which is really annoying. We know they're not here--they haven't SAID anything for 10 minutes! ) EugeneKay (chat) 07:50, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
• Preference for having userlist pane on left. Havvy 21:10, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
• Preference to toogle "SOMEONE SAID SOMETHING" in Title
• Preference to toggle the On Mibbit/Off Mibbit icons. Havvy 21:44, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
• Include some short instructions on the preferences page, explaining what each field is for. Especially explaining syntax for adding multiple channels.
• Ability to change charset. I get scands (ä/ö) as ? from some clients.
  • I can reproduce this also, but for Spanish characters. Havvy 20:47, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
• Preference to toggle the warning dialog box that pops up when you close a server tab.
• Preference to toggle seeing the host mask of a user entering or leaving the channel (just like "Username (hostmask) joined/left #channelname"). That helps channel ops a lot.
• Hiding the <title> for work or school irc ;)
• Dragable pane borders (or at least user-defined column width) -- HerculeP, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
• Using cookies, allow guests to have preferences. Cookie is made when they view the prefs tab and aren't logged in. Show Prefs button when they aren't logged is needed for this. Havvy 20:47, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
• Allow for easy rejoining of rooms that have been peered/kicked from. Folks use it as jokes where I hang out, and I had to type join in an entirely different chat window and have a new chat window pop up after a kick rather than just being able to type /join #room in the same window and have it rejoin and continue.
• A ban list that anyone can view for a specific channel.

User Interface

• A way to re-arrange tabs, or separate server tabs from chat tabs.
• A graphical front-end to Bitlbee - this would make Mibbit much more popular as you could use it as an IM client with ease.
• Increase the colors for the on Mibbit/off Mibbit icons. The thing with the green or blue person or IPod. Havvy 20:47, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
  • CZ logo for Chatzilla people.
  • Mirc logo for Mirc people.
• /word/ should italicize it. *word* should bold it. _word_ should underline it. Havvy 20:47, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
• Include Ajax IFrame tabs in the Wii interface to allow users to browse the web while IRC'ing (see www.eyeos.com)
• Making it so that pressing a letter on the keyboard when you have selected the users list (list of users in that channel) will jump to the next user with a nick starting with that letter.
• Allow Stalk Words
• Have topic always visible on top of chat screen, like how ChatZilla does it? Have the preference for this set to off by default. 24.20.25.120 17:22, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
• Smilies for ;( [crying] and D: [uh, don't know name]. 24.20.25.120 23:26, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
• Pop up an error message if the user attempts to add a new line for a server that already exists in the list. Or else automatically merge the two channel lists. Currently it just silently ignores the click on "Add". I thought it was a bug and "Add" didn't work.
• When logged in Mibbit, have the nickname in "Find Channels" tab be your sign up nick instead of mib_randomness

• Away messages in whois. These are supported by many servers/clients, but we can't see them in mibbit, when (for example) they are set by irssi users 71.105.107.54 06:59, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Raw Numerics Look A Bit Lame ATM

stuff like this look lame:

1:32	broadway.ny.us.dal.net	255: | [0] Sadie|AjaxIRC, [1] I have 98 clients and 1 servers
1:32	broadway.ny.us.dal.net	265: | [0] Sadie|AjaxIRC, [1] Current local users: 98 Max: 15001
1:32	broadway.ny.us.dal.net	266: | [0] Sadie|AjaxIRC, [1] Current global users: 26806 Max: 56468

it could be implemented like this

1:15 broadway.ny.us.dal.net [RAW=255] I have '''2492''' clients and '''0''' servers
1:15 broadway.ny.us.dal.net [RAW=265] Current local  users: '''2492'''  Max: '''2868'''
1:15 broadway.ny.us.dal.net [RAW=266] Current global users: '''38649'''  Max: '''44966'''

Commands

• /verify <nick> should should what client that the the person is using. Use /verify <nick> on CZ for more info. Havvy 23:37, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
  • In my opinion i think that /version is a better command for checking what client someone uses ;) --Sadie 14:57, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
• /say support would be nice, especially with the Alias idea below.
• /server support for those who want to do things quickly.
• /ping that ctcp pings users would be handy.
• add /hop
• slap
• /whowas
• /hide (To still be on a channel but no one can see you pm you or have you appear at all.
• /hideall t hide from all channels.

Alias

Alias Commands similar to Chatzilla: FAQ

Aliases provide this "watered down" power, by letting you quickly and simply create a new 
command that performs a set of other commands (which may themselves be aliases)

In its simplest form, an alias is simply renaming a command and fixing some parameters:

/alias help join #help

/alias <new command name> <old command> [<parameters>]

The new command doesn't override the old command.

Servers

• SILCnet support - http://silcnet.org/
• Abducted-IRC support - irc.abducted.us (they dont have a site - currenty 523 users connected) --Sadie 14:57, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
• Increase the # of connections to Rizon.net servers
• Open Server on the Telnet for connection to other MUDs/MUSHes/MOOs/MUXes.
• Austnet.org Support - restored.il.us.austnet.org
• Worldnet support - irc.worldnet.net
• euIRC trust - irc.euirc.net (http://www.euirc.net)
• Gamesurge trust - irc.gamesurge.net G-Lines pretty conistantly (http://gamesurge.net)
• rc.Team-BT.Com - Under Gaming category.
• irc.veekun.com - Under Gaming category I think... HTTP website is a Pokemon thing...

Websites

• skins.mibbit.com skin exchange interface

Other

• skins (user creatable?), maybe integrated in the forthcoming GUI
• Support for (Windows) pocket devices.
• Optional username/ident support - useful for BNC users.
• Opt-out/blacklist of channels that do not want to have their chat logged and displayed to joining mibbit users.
  • Doesn't that feature only work on Mibbit channels? It doesn't work on other servers. Havvy 04:27, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
    • It works on our Freenode.net channel. 141.209.216.49 05:57, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
• If a line that doesn't contain UTF-8 is being used in the incoming message, encode the incoming line to UTF-8 by assuming ISO-8859-1 (or detect preferred encoding/character set from the browser's settings?)
• PSP compatible interface. The www.mibbit.com interface doesn't load fully on the PSP's web browser...

Scripting

Don't edit while this line is here. Havvy 15:10, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Axod, eventually having scripting capabilities on Mibbit could make Mibbit profitable as people would use it for easy scripting if done right. While the following suggestion doesn't have to be done soon, I would like to see it eventually.

First, a new group of pages must be made, a set of scripting pages. Since I'm low on time to make this, I'll just explain the page that lists all the scripts you have. Basically, it is a table of scripts that a person has made. It shows the name, and if you click the name, it takes you to the edit screen. Next to the name there will be links: Rename; Edit; Delete; Share. It also shows an ID for the script.

Rename allows you to change the name of the script to something else. It must follow variable naming conventions (Can't start with number or symbol, but can start with _) and can't share the same name as another of your scripts.

Edit takes you to the edit screen, which allows you to edit the script. More on it later.

Delete allows you to delete your script into obscurity. Have a warning before deleting it. Also, might want to have a 24 grace period for getting them back.

Share allows you to copy your script to another person if they so choose. Also more on that later.

NOT DONE. DON'T EDIT...