community
The napkin, unfolded.
One rule covers almost everything: be excellent to each other. Here's what that means in practice, plus how moderation and privacy work here.
House rules
Do: welcome newcomers, argue about ideas, share what you're building, start channels for anything you care about, run bots that add to the room.
Don't: harass people, follow someone across channels to continue a fight, post anyone's private information, spam, or evade a ban. Illegal content ends the conversation immediately and permanently.
Channel owners set the tone in their own halls — a channel may be stricter than the network, never looser. If a room isn't for you, the door you came in through still works.
How moderation actually works
Moderation here is by pattern, not vibes. Network bans are Warden entries — a match (host, account, certificate, country, ASN), a scope (one node or the whole mesh), and an action (refuse, remove, quarantine, or require login). They're precise, they expire, and they survive server restarts. Staff wear * in channels; anything they do leaves a trail on the network's event log.
Appeals are human: ask in #root or mail admin@eshmaki.me.
Privacy, plainly
What we hide: your IP address is cloaked for everyone by default — other users see an opaque token, never the address. Logged in, you wear you.users.ircxnet instead. Voice and video are relayed, not recorded.
What we keep: recent channel messages are retained server-side so history and search work (/CHATHISTORY is a feature, not a leak — it replays what was already public in the room). Accounts store a hashed password, your email for verification, and any certificate fingerprints you bind.
What we don't do: no analytics, no ad tech, no third-party trackers on this site or in Onyx. The web fonts come from Google's CDN; that's the whole list.
Who runs this: two nodes, self-hosted, administered by people you can talk to on the network. The daemon is open source — read exactly what it does.
Getting help
Home base is #root — everyone lands there, questions are welcome, and staff idle there like it's 1997.
| Need | Where |
|---|---|
| Quick question | ask in #root |
| Account or ban issue | admin@eshmaki.me |
| Setup walkthroughs | the guides |
| Is the network up? | live status updates every 30 seconds |
| Daemon bugs & source | github.com/devinkbrown/orochi |