Meh. While bridging to IRC does make you a guest, the amount of hand-wringing IRC people do about differences in formatting always felt disproportionate to me,

Meh. While bridging to IRC does make you a guest, the amount of hand-wringing IRC people do about differences in formatting always felt disproportionate to me, especially in that IRC doesn't actually have an officially sanctioned experience. It's fine to DM a password to a Nickserv and set esoteric channel modes, but apparently looking bad to irssi/erc/BitchX/WeeChat users is a big no. The long message -> file behavior is a bit silly and understandably annoying, especially in a help channel, but the amount of complaints I've seen of people not following <my-IRC-client-of-choice>'s highlight pattern is just silly. People get uppity because you appended the IRC network's friendly name in parens to their actual name? Oh no!