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I'm not sure any of those are issues that couldn't have been addressed by now through a new version of the protocol, though; what I'm trying to get it is that i

I'm not sure any of those are issues that couldn't have been addressed by now through a new version of the protocol, though; what I'm trying to get it is that it's sort of weird to me that IRC in 2019 isn't materially different than IRC in 1994. IRCv3 addresses a whole lot of those problems, for instance, and there's nothing that technically could have prevented it from addressing them 10 years ago.

dcbadacd 8y ago
IRCv3 brings a bunch of really nice features I'm so happy to have, but it's really the clients that need a lot of work in addition to just IRCv3 features. Image, video and audio inlining is still something that no client does and the standard can't help with and that's a huge con for most users. What the standard could help with is standardizing markdown formatting, some method of E2E encryption, better SASL (with registration, key rollover/update and distribution between your clients).