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langel / botb_irc_bot

battle of the bits instant relay chat magic
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Make the message boldness configurable #87

Open TheWing opened 3 years ago

TheWing commented 3 years ago

With the irc-discord bot translating all ircformatting except color, I think it'd be nice to have the bot be configurable to have boldness in the messages too.

Right now I guess it can be easily achieved just by adding the bold modifier character into the text_color setting, but it might be worthwhile to have it separate?

langel commented 3 years ago

in my experience making messages bold on IRC decreases legibility i agree that that isn't so on discord and the previous bridge would bold anything coming from botb bot so i'm not entirely sure what to do here is it possible for the current bridge to look at the irc username and add boldness?

TheWing commented 3 years ago

I'm not sure I want to start on the track of modifying message appearance based on usernames, I'd rather keep the bridge bridging the messages so that they're "as similar" as they can between the two.. I've never seen bold messages decrease in legibility on IRC, that sounds more like something to do with the fonts the specific irc client uses. And since message boldness is already a feature of IRC, I don't really want to add it as another feature for the bridge (which already supports boldness, it's just that botb bot isn't using boldness)

Also, most text-based irc clients already get bold text on all brightly colored text due to how a lot of terminals handle the brighter colors from the basic 16-color set. And that has never caused decreases in legibility to me at least.