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authorrebecca <ubq323@ubq323.website>2026-09-24 16:42:28 +0100
committerrebecca <ubq323@ubq323.website>2026-09-24 18:20:25 +0100
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create Thing class for general tuples of (pylon,descriptor)
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@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ Channel: a particular chatroom on a particular service
in the code, a Channel is identified by a combination of a Pylon
and a string 'channel descriptor', whose format depends on the Pylon type
for instance xmpp channel descriptors are jids, discord uses numeric ids
+
+Thing: used in the code for such a tuple of (pylon, pylon-specific-descriptor)
+ actually it also has a display name, which defaults to the descriptor
+ used to represent Channels, Authors, ...
Bus: a family of connected channels that messages will be bridged between