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IRC v3

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Resurfaced independently across 5 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
8
submitters
7
observed span
2015–2021
peak thread · 217 comments
595 pts
latest 20+ return · 2021-05-19
130 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.

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There's a lot of neat stuff in IRCv3 to bring IRC up to date, but most importantly it is standardising a lot of the existing protocol and patching up some of the existing warts that make pushing IRC difficult - all while being backwards compatible. Developing kiwiirc.com over the past few years to cover many different IRC servers in all different languages and using many different services/auth services has been a real pain. It won't improve overnight but these IRCv3…

Given that Matrix seems to be quite successful these days, and afaict is basically a next-gen IRC, is there any compelling reason to push IRC?

Yoric·130-point thread·

The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.

Breakout years
2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
743

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Total comments
311

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2015-06-22IRCv3 Working Groupvoltagex_10
2015-11-03IRC v3 Working Groupbpierre30
2016-09-24IRCv3tete40
2016-10-02IRCv3 (working group)cm330
2016-10-09IRC v3First breakout · Best threadbpierre595217
2019-09-12IRCv3 – Open, extensible, feature-rich chat, proven through years of usediggan40
2020-10-28IRCv3laktak30
2021-05-19IRCv3Hall induction · Latest 20+ point returnxvilka13094