<h1>irclogs2</h1>
    <p>
        <strong>irclogs2</strong> is a web-based IRC log viewer.
    </p>

    <p>
        Visit the site at <a href="http://irclogs.qmsk.net/">irclogs.qmsk.net</a>.
    </p>

<h2>History</h2>
    <p>
        Many years ago, in Feburary 2006, I started publically logging some IRC channels I was on to the web. As part of
        this, I started writing a PHP script to make viewing said logs slightly nicer than just raw plaintext files. This
        PHP script worked quite succesfully, and had a number of frequent users.
    </p>
    <p>
        Unfortunately, development of that PHP script kind of stopped, and over the following years, I made some unsuccesful
        attempts to write a new version of these logs. <a href="http://spbot2.marttila.de/">SpBotII</a> ended up a
        failure (probably due to me concentrating on the cool bits first, before actually taking care to write something
        that worked and did what it needed to).
    </p>
    <p>
        Now in early Feburary 2008, I finally managed to succesfully re-start my development of Python web code (by
        writing <a href="/projects/qmsk.web">qmsk.web</a>), and I quickly started work on a replacement for the origional
        now-three-years-old PHP logs. Born was <strong>irclogs2</strong>.
    </p>        

<h2>Features</h2>
    <p>
        The new irclogs2 supports everything that the old PHP irclogs did, but is better in every way.
    </p>

    <ul>
        <li>Supports logs stored in the default Irssi theme, one file per day</li>
        <li>Multiple channels</li>
        <li>Per-user preferences, stored as cookies, or given as query string arguments in the URL</li>
        <li>Per-user timezone preference, with full support for said timezones in all date-time handling</li>
        <li>Efficient retrieval of the latest N log lines for a given channel</li>
        <li>HTML calendar for browsing logs by date</li>
        <li>Indexed fulltext search using <a href="http://hyperestraier.sourceforge.net/">Hyper Estraier</a></li>
        <li>Flexible pagination for log viewer and search results</li>
        <li>Timezone-agnostic links to specific log lines</li>
        <li>Configureable formatter/font/date-time format etc.</li>
        <li>Support for rendering displayed lines as HTML, plaintext, PNG, RSS</li>
        <li>Pretty URLS :)</li>
        <li>Valid, visually uncluttered XHTML/CSS design using Mako templates</li>
        <li>Works as a WSGI application</li>
    </ul>

<h2>Support</h2>
    <p>
        If you have questions about this project, please don't hesitate to <a href="/about">contact me</a>.
    </p>

    <p>
        There is also a issue tracker available at <a href="http://projects.qmsk.net/irclogs2/trac/query">the project Trac</a>.
    </p>

<h2>Development</h2>
    <p>
        The web code is based on <a href="/projects/qmsk.web">qmsk.web</a>. Mercurial repository is available at 
        <a href="http://hg.qmsk.net/irclogs2">http://hg.qmsk.net/irclogs2</a>, project Trac at 
        <a href="http://projects.qmsk.net/irclogs2/trac">http://projects.qmsk.net/irclogs2/trac</a>.
    </p>