> like edition of messages (with a flag marking it as edited) This works on Slack but only with their client. Use one of the bridges and you have no clue what'

> like edition of messages (with a flag marking it as edited) This works on Slack but only with their client. Use one of the bridges and you have no clue what's going on and they have a centralised system for this. Syncing that somehow across all servers in an IRC network, across netsplits and everything, is far from simple. You'd also need to do this retroactively somehow if a client received a message, disconnects, the message is updated and the client then reconnects, in order to present an accurate history. > or a common way to have plugins/extensions IRC already has a way to allow for extensions. Or do you mean client side? > or tagging links as images I'm not sure the IRC protocol should care about that at all. It's more up to the client to detect image links and Glowing Bear for example already does and can display them inline.