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IRC is probably used by more people now than ever before, though in a very different way than before. The whole of Twitch's chat infrastructure is running on it
by erk__ 5y ago
IRC is probably used by more people now than ever before, though in a very different way than before. The whole of Twitch's chat infrastructure is running on it and it have hundreds of thousands of concurrent users. Though for most people it is running though a websocket instead of a raw socket, but the commands are the same a long way
- Jasper_ 5y agoThe IRC protocol is for the bot API only. The chat on the website uses a custom protocol, and the IRC daemon has always been a custom implementation with weird quirks.
- erk__ 5y agoIt is a custom protocol that follows IRC very closely, they just have a lot of extensions on it to add support for the things on twitch. to start a connection you send PASS, NICK, USER and then JOIN, over the websocket so I would not really call it a custom protocol. The url it uses is wss://irc-ws.chat.twitch.tv/ as well.