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diff --git a/terminology.txt b/terminology.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e4157b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/terminology.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +note: i'm writing this after not working on this project for 6 months +so i'm kind of figuring this out for myself + +anyway + +pylon: a chat server that wilson makes a connection to + which could be "some irc server", "some xmpp server" + or "discord" (discord is centralized so there's only 1 discord to connect to) + note that discord's concept of "server" aka "guild" is unrelated to anything + +channel: a particular chatroom on a particular service + eg "#a on apionet" or "#general in some discord guild" + 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 + +bus: a family of connected channels that messages will be bridged between |