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An 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

• tingletech 4y ago
  I 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 ago
  I 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 ago
  Huh, 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 ago
    I suppose we could dig into that twitch source code leak to confirm