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Twitch chat also uses IRC
by cobertos 3y ago
Twitch chat also uses IRC
- mondobe 3y agoSo does the online multiplayer for Worms: Armageddon, ChanServ and all.
- puzzlingcaptcha 3y agoIIRC the original Battlenet (Starcraft etc) also used it.
- opello 3y agoYes! We had Diablo 2 Battle.net bots that were IRC clients. :) Fond memories.
- cmsj 3y agorandom fun fact, the creator of Worms used to hang out on a #worms channel on IRCnet. It was a lot of fun for many years, but eventually Andy left and people slowly drifted away as the Amiga scene shrank, and now all that's left is me and a few people who weren't even there in the original era, in a #worms channel on ARCNet (I forget why we moved from IRCnet). Sadly, I have no logs from the old days, so all I have is memories of lots of CTCP SOUND shenanigans.
- PokemonNoGo 3y agoCan you connect to it with a regular client?
- ericbarrett 3y agoYou could back in the early days (I did it), not sure today.
- themoonisachees 3y agoYou still can, it's very useful for bots and game integrations because you just need an IRC lib in your language of choice. However, the servers aren't IRC anymore, they just have a compat shim that speaks IRC for those purposes.
- fivre 3y agoyes, i use irssi to hold persistent sessions for all the twitch chats im in. doesn't require anything special beyond an oauth token sent as the server password