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Re:Shout – A web IRC client by nacs on Monday September 08, 2014 @03:46PM (#8286793)
Most IRC networks have a per-IP connection limit.

The slots in this case are the amount of connections that can come from the demo server (20 at the moment).

If you ran this software on your own server, you wouldn't run into the problem unless you tried to open 20 simultaneous connections to 1 IRC network.

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Re:Shout – A web IRC client by Gigablah on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @12:15AM (#8288721)
Apparently there's a protocol that addresses this issue (WEBIRC): https://github.com/thedjpetersen/subway/issues/117
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Re:Shout – A web IRC client by dale-cooper on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @05:29AM (#8289336)
Is this actually implemented server-side on any networks?
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Re:Shout – A web IRC client by freedrull on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @05:49AM (#8289383)
KiwiIRC uses this protocol apparently. I asked the author about it and they said they have worked out special arrangements with some networks to implement it, and accept connections exclusively from Kiwi, I presume? After all, a password is required according to this spec: https://kiwiirc.com/docs/webirc
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