Re:Mozilla is giving up on their IRC server
by swalladge on Saturday April 27, 2019 @09:45AM
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I wonder how much work it would be to extend the IRC protocol and popular implementations to include some sort of persistence. It's such a shame that a simple, open, accessible protocol for communication is being lost simply because of this and that it's "too difficult".
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Re:Mozilla is giving up on their IRC server
by the8472 on Saturday April 27, 2019 @10:00AM
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IRCv3 has history replay message types. It's there in the protocol. But it's only useful if both clients and server or proxy support it.
Re:Mozilla is giving up on their IRC server
by theclaw on Saturday April 27, 2019 @11:53AM
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Very simple - the server can push to the client when joining a channel. This would require the channel to be logged server-side and that the user authenticates with nickserv before joining channels. It does not need client-side changes so you could still use any client.