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IRC 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 ser
by davidw 7y ago
IRC 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.