Hide Telegram usernames in IRC messages (TeleIRC as a bouncer)

[doni-irc]

Edited by @jwflory.

Summary

Optionally hide Telegram usernames in messages sent to IRC

Background

@deltagnan has a use case for running TeleIRC as a bouncer for a specific channel. A Telegram group would act as a private room for the individual Telegram user. The IRC bot joins the Telegram channel and messages appear to come from the correct nick instead of the current recommendation (i.e. IRC nick is tg-yourchat-bot).

Details

Add a config option to hide Telegram usernames in messages sent to IRC. This needs clear documentation because I expect it is not what most end-users will want. But it is particularly useful for others with this use case. This is not the first time the TeleIRC team has received informal requests for using TeleIRC as a bouncer-like service.

Outcome

Better support for one-to-many chat rooms, instead of many-to-many as currently supported

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Original comment

Hello,
Please may you add this new values in next version?

• IRC_REAL_NAME (real_name should be different then nickname) irc: Clean up config options (fixes #113) #355
• SHOW_TOPIC_MESSAGE (event - when opers sets/changes new topic)
• SHOW_CHANGE_NICK_MESSAGE (event - when users sets new nickname)
• IRC_IP_MACHINE (to connect/show different IP than main IP - IPv4 or v6) irc: Add support for multiple IP addresses (closes #324) #356
• Enable irc mode-commands /op /deop /voice /devoice /topic /nick /kick /ban /names (for userlist)
• An option to hide nickname on IRC channel. Only text from bot, so you can use it as a bouncer.

Thanks

[Tjzabel]

Adding this as a potential hacktoberfest ticket. Some of these bullets are simple changes.

[jwflory]

Looking back at this, most of these requests (except the bouncer one) seem like a duplicate of #113. Is anyone opposed if I edit this issue to be specifically about the bouncer/hide nickname, and move the rest of the requests over to #113?