Posts about the Internet Relay Chat protocol, a text-based chat system that’s many years old.
Why do IRC servers not communicate with a standard protocol, and can we introduce a standard protocol to talk between them?
Having a multitude of custom S2S protocols was inevitable given how IRC networks ended up being contro...
IRC is very strange from a standardisation perspective, and where it’s gonna end up isn’t clear.
IRC is a weird beast… really weird. It’s like 30 years old, there’s no controlling body, and the protocol has been randomly exten...