Re:Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects
by e12e on Monday November 02, 2015 @02:24AM
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I read that more as: "your use case looks like the way people attack our network (and people actually do attack our network). It is too much work to enable your bots to run what amounts to simulated attacks, when what we want is a network for people to communicate with each other".
It certainly is a limitation, but any kind of service needs DDOS mitigation.
"Your use case would basically break EsperNet (but it's because of our implementation! We have a lot of issues with our implementation but they're not because IRC can't handle it!)."
If the protocol's limitations mean that their use case is not viable due to the strain it places on the administrative side, it's still a limitation.