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At least a few years ago it was an actual IRC server and has been since justin.tv. I don’t believe they’ve changed it, as irc clients and bots have continued wo
by MaxLeiter 4y ago
At least a few years ago it was an actual IRC server and has been since justin.tv. I don’t believe they’ve changed it, as irc clients and bots have continued working with no IRC related changes. (I don’t think they’d invest in providing an IRC gateway; it’d be easier to just abandon it)
- matt74827289 4y agoAn article from late 2015 indicates that IRC is nothing more than an API interface and not their underlying system. https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2015/12/18/twitch-engineering-an-introduction-and-overview-a23917b71a25/ https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2015/12/18/twitch-engineering-an-i...
- tingletech 4y agoI thought IRC was just an API interface to begin with? https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2812 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2812
- dayjah 4y agoI can confirm this. Context: part of the engineering team that worked on the chat infrastructure around this time period. The history is basically: - v1: IRC API to process scoped servers (Python backend, haxe front end) - kept API as we migrated backed to go (via a terrible course through nodejs); this version allowed all participants to be in a room together (ie cross process servers). - once most of background was on go we migrated the front end (can’t remember to what) - backend then got revved a lot (a specialized team was convened to work on chat infrastructure full time) I left in 2017, no idea what has happened since.
- MaxLeiter 4y agoHuh, cool. Not sure when it changed but https://techcrunch.com/2007/05/22/justin-tv-network-launches-more-shows-to-come/ https://techcrunch.com/2007/05/22/justin-tv-network-launches... is a source for justintv using IRC
- pineconewarrior 4y agoI suppose we could dig into that twitch source code leak to confirm