The Future of Shadowfire

There are a handful of things expected to change over the next year, and I would like to take this opportunity to discuss our future plans. Two of the more important changes involve our services package, and our ircd.

IRCServices

IRCServices has reached the end of it's life cycle and was designed with a lot of old and antiquated principles that are not conducive to the way we envision a modern irc network operating. In response to this, our developers are actively working on a new services database written completely in Python, named SHS. It will contain a lot of backwards compatibility with most of the commands you know and love from IRCServices, and will become part of Ares once finished. More on the details of this will be released as I know more.

Inspircd

We are planning to change to Inspircd. This IRCD, in our opinion, is much better written. It has a modular design which will allow us to improve security, and better expand to meet the needs of our users. This will follow the completion of SHS, as it is being designed to operate with Inspircd.

Both of these changes are designed so we can better evolve and tailor our service to suit our exact requirements.