Re:Twitch.js
by fulafel on Sunday June 05, 2022 @01:20PM
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IRC is pretty scalable as-is, no?
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It is! AFAIK you can have a bunch of relay servers effectively acting as load balancers. In the nineties / early 00s you had large IRC networks with many thousands of users chatting in real time with no issues.
Well, one known issue was a netsplit [1]. But it did work most of the time.