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Freja@nycki i think that's just a question of whether your community members are willing to connect to a new irc server or whether they're just there because the channel is on the network they're on
@freja fair point. ideally I'd like to use an existing server, so I should reframe the question: is it possible for me to write my own bot that interacts with nickserv in some way? like can I make a chat for 'registered users only'?
@nycki i don't think that requires a bot even, i recall being in plenty of channels that required registration. it would be a channel mode and that would depend on how the particular network works, though (check their docs). and typically the registered status of a user is also publicly visible to everyone on the network so that should also be trivially readable by a bot by doing a who on the user (it's been years though since i did anything irc)