That was fast! From the moment I refactored the code to Golang and started using it some new features arrived that I have been making use.

The last release adds two plugins:

• Domain blocker: Allows adding the plugin to a channel and set up a list of domains to block. If a message contains a link to one of those domains, the message is deleted and the user warned.

• Remind me: Allows users to reply a message with !remindme X (where X is a relative time like 3d) so the bot can remind the user when that amount of time has happened of the message they replied to.

My initial idea with Butterrobot was to give users a plugin toolkit that allowed for configuration, database and storage, but since now all plugins live in the same codebase those were fairly easy to implement. Some things require a bit of polish (like the plugin configuration UI) but for now, it just works and I’m happy with it.

You can find the latest release for Butterrobot in it’s git repository