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I second this. Things like the lack of multiline messages is something one would expect out of the early 90s.
by sonthonax 7y ago
I second this. Things like the lack of multiline messages is something one would expect out of the early 90s.
- davidw 7y agoIRC is actually older than the web by a few years. No reason you couldn't update the protocol to improve some things if you wanted to invest in it somewhat seriously.
- maccam94 7y agoIt's actually pretty hard to update the IRC protocol given the number of client and server implementations and IRC's federated nature. https://ircv3.net/support/networks.html https://ircv3.net/support/networks.html
- davidw 7y agoCorrect, but, if you wanted to invest a chunk of change because it's important to you, you could get it done. And it does work right now, pretty well, for a lot of people, even if it could be better, which was the original thing I was refuting.
- PeterisP 7y agoAs soon as you update the protocol in any way, then it becomes an incompatible new not-IRC protocol. And if whatever you're building is not going to be compatible with IRC, then what's the point in starting with IRC? You might as well make a protocol from scratch like Mattermost or Slack has done.