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It is worth nothing that IRCv3 is a coup d'etat made by a closed coven of developers: Most IRC clients are slowly developed or almost dead these days; the modu
by eahman09 8y ago
It is worth nothing that IRCv3 is a coup d'etat made by a closed coven of developers:
Most IRC clients are slowly developed or almost dead these days; the modus operandi of the IRCv3 developers is that they write patches for those IRC clients to support IRCv3 features and then push hard for the maintainers of those clients to merge them ("this is what the future of irc looks like! it's what the other clients are implementing! do you wanna be the only one not implementing it???")
They argue the development of their "standards" is open, but the truth is that nobody cares about it (most people are OK with IRC as it is now) so very few people contribute; they pretend that nobody complaining is a tacit agreement that everybody is OK with their changes, when that's far from the truth.
- dcbadacd 8y agoTo be fair the protocol was on in my opinion life support and IRCv3 really gives a few more years to the protocol and clients. Actually, I still think most IRC clients stale as f* even with IRCv3, for example embedding images and videos in chats should be trivial but I've yet to see a Linux desktop client do it (without sacrificing other features). IRCv3 doesn't also fix client certificate updating, though neither does any client handle client certs nicely so it's a sweet dream of mine to see auto-updated client certs.