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Thank you OP, it's great to see new apps for old OS X!

One thing I noticed is that the main menu has some items I don't think apply to your app:

https://i.ibb.co/7rXcMCH/Screen-Shot-2025-01-26-at-7-37-12-P...

Page Setup? Print? Unless there's an aspect of your app I'm missing, I think you want to get rid of these.

The other menus also have some stuff you may want to cut down on. Correct me if I'm wrong, but, I don't think you can actually open files in this app, right? So then `New` `Open`, `Open Recent` and so on probably shouldn't be there.

I'm using 10.9 instead of 10.4, still pretty old but a lot newer than Tiger, so if this is OS specific please ignore me. :)

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Edit:

Your app stopped loading new categories for me, so I tried disconnecting and reconnecting. When I tried to reconnect, it never completed. Then I saw this in Console.app:

```

1/26/25 7:44:36.466 PM Uppercut[80462]: IRC | Received message: NOTICE AUTH :*** Found your hostname :irc.swepipe.se NOTICE nZuLWvRtl :*** Banned Temporary K-line 4320 min. - Open proxy found. See http://rbl.efnetrbl.org/?i=###.###.###.### for more information. (2025/1/27 00.37) ERROR :Closing Link: syn-###.###.###.###.###.###.com (*** Banned )

```

(I've censored my IP address by replacing it with #).

Is it possible the irc server detected your app as malicious activity? It is a bot, after all. But I don't know why it would only happen for me?

It's theoretically possible there is something else wrong with my network, but (1) I took a quick look at my router's traffic and did not notice anything amiss, and (2) I wasn't banned when I first started using your app, and I am now.

On yet another separate note, I tried checking the log window in your app (window → show log) before I checked the system Console, but it was empty. If you're going to have a log window in your app, IRC connection messages might be a good thing to put there!




> One thing I noticed is that the main menu has some items I don't think apply to your app:

Yep, I'd forgotten about those default menu items and need to remove them in a future version.

> Is it possible the irc server detected your app as malicious activity?

Yes, during my testing I got banned with a similar message from one of the servers. Uppercut randomly selects an EFnet server from a list, so trying again may have everything go smoothly. I'm not sure what exactly some servers are looking for to determine a ban or not.




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