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maccam94 on Dec 17, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Sl...

It's actually pretty hard to update the IRC protocol given the number of client and server implementations and IRC's federated nature.

https://ircv3.net/support/networks.html

davidw on Dec 17, 2019 [–]

Correct, but, if you wanted to invest a chunk of change because it's important to you, you could get it done.

And it does work right now, pretty well, for a lot of people, even if it could be better, which was the original thing I was refuting.

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