> Missing messages because you're not online is simply unacceptable to today's audience It's my favorite feature. I want to chat with friends, not have a secon

> Missing messages because you're not online is simply unacceptable to today's audience It's my favorite feature. I want to chat with friends, not have a second job I need to catch up with. > It's actually kind of appalling from a security perspective to expose users' IP addresses. I'm genuinely surprised that the major IRC networks still don't hide them. Sure, it'd break things like DCC, but would prevent DDoS attacks against fellow users. Hostname cloaking is a pretty standard feature these days, you just generally have to ask for it to be turned on which is a bit odd. Doesn't break DCC either because DCC negotiates what your IP is directly with your client afaik. NAT is generally the thing that breaks DCC.