Tellable should respond to private messages

[treyharris]

Tellable should respond to private messages

[AlexDaniel]

Yes, tellable6 should start responding to private messages. It's blocked by default here because there are all kinds of damage you can do via private messages (in case of tellable it can be something stupid like sending a message to each user on the channel resulting in annoying bot spam). Better safe than sorry, but in case of tellable6 we should probably be a bit more permissive.

As for normalize-weirdly, it's designed to be that way. For example, it's so that when you send a message to Coke (which users do often) it gets received by [Coke] and vice versa. Yes, these are distinct nicknames and of course different users can have them at the same time, but in practice that never happens on our channels. This function was designed by analyzing messages that were never delivered by the previous bot, and it works like a treat. Technically it's wrong, but reality is that users are constantly changing their nicknames and people don't remember all the intricate details of every nickname.

[treyharris]

Btw, looking at normalize-weirdly: underscores are valid nick characters, so I think this may cause bad behavior for users with underscore-containing nicks?

A valid PCRE for valid nicks not including Unicode extensions is:

/\A[a-z_\-\[\]\\^{}|`][a-z0-9_\-\[\]\\^{}|`]*\z/i

And the Unicode extensions (which should be pretty easy to add in Raku) are shown here.

[treyharris]

Actually, that last comment doesn’t belong here. I’ll promote it to its own issue.

[AlexDaniel]

I'm pretty sure this is now working (some bots will start responding to private messages after they're updated). Tests needed.