- feed polling now recovers from transient failures
- can poll a local file: uri as well as remote uris
- more robust new item detection, with some alternate strategies available
- --idle option, waits for channel inactivity before announcing
- limit individual field sizes, preventing too many irc messages per item
- misc. output improvements
- logging improvements
- --delay now takes minutes, not seconds
See hackage for more detail. Note the new contributor! Thanks Radoslav.
I am currently using this to run hackagebot, darcscommitbot and other announce-bots on freenode. A tip: if you experiment, avoid joining the irc server too frequently; once per minute may be ok. Feedback and patches welcome. Best,