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> It is named for the city of 板橋 (Banqiao), the county seat of New Taipei City in Taiwan. The kanji was coined by the Japanese, and means "Planked Bridge". 

`discord-irc`, based on `slack-irc`, was developed to sync messages between two channels. Unfortunately, discord-irc is deeply buggy and eats up a ton of RAM. Not sure if slack-irc is any better, but discord-irc going to have to improve before we can use it in production. 

Thus, perhaps we should build a new bot entirely, using Python. We could use the python IRC bot from dan_ and put it together with this one. 

It could also double as a chat logger, which will then publish the logs on a site daily (allowing time to redact sensitive info as needed).

* [Github Gist - Copygirl: cord.js](https://gist.github.com/copygirl/6bd44865e98951b4716c)

### Discord API

The Discord API needs to be better documented before this will become more effective. Maybe we could even implement private messaging.

* [Github - discord.py](https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py)
* [Twitter - API Announcement](https://twitter.com/discordapp/status/647994542960979970)
* [Building a discord bot in Python](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNaO1nQ0zSA)