Can you share what you store in each of the databases?

Here's what I'd speculate:

- Redis: message lists for active users

- Postgres: account details

- Cassandra: all messages

Thanks.

Yep, postgres has all the account / user details, lists of what network and channels to join, billing etc.

All the irc messages end up in cassandra, via rabbitmq. We use local redis as a cache for the most recent messages. Our cassandra cluster is on EC2 (~11ms away from our other hardware, which is in LA).

Please can you wire up some unicorns to some rainbows and make it so I can have irssi act as a client for irccloud? ;)

I really want an IRC kernel with an API, so I can have all sorts of clients on different machines/platforms, but it seems to be impossible at the moment, without using the horrible bouncers.

What's wrong with bouncers? ZNC has been serving me well over 5 networks for years now. I don't see the appeal in an in-browser solution at all.

Isn't this what Quassel http://www.quassel-irc.org/ does, or am I misunderstanding what you're asking?

Isn't that what dircproxy does?

Thanks.

For me, it's only really useful with a backlog of perhaps 7 days, the rest I would like to have permanently deleted, it would make me feel more comfortable using the service.

Out of curiosity, what causes you to be "comfortable" (or not) with a service keeping a record of your IRC activities? I assume you have private networks in some form?

I'm not judging, i simply ask because a lot of people are connecting to Freenode/Freenode-like locations where he majority of the channels are already logged 24/7 by you, countless others, and bots publishing the content to the web.

Maybe not make this the default behaviour, but an option would be nice.

Great, work, I tried it, got my invite and logged into my Freenode channels. Very nice!

Is this the place to ask for colour input? IRCCloud displays colours fine, but I can't figure out how to use them in my own messages.