One day an idea came up on the #freepost IRC channel: We didn't need much of
the serious features IRC bots provide, but we could develop an IRC bot
collaboratively, for fun and for learning new skills and languages! I also
thought this is a great chance for people to quickly see their code in real
use, which is motivating when learning programming, and it's a chance to
introduce Haskell to the community.
While the bot is made for and by the Freepost community,
it is fully intended for use any anyone else! For experienced Haskell
developers, this bot can perhaps provide space for creativity and custom
advanced plugins and features.
Since this bot is meant for collaborative development while really running
it, the running instance in #freepost
is built from the git repository.
Occasionally releases will be made to Hackage. If you want to be sure you
have all the latest features, check out the git repository (and/or ask us to
make a release if you think it's been long enough).