Submission timeline
2007–2026One 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.
Top comments
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?
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HN stats
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 743
- Total comments
- 311
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-06-22 | IRCv3 Working Group | voltagex_ | 1 | 0 |
| 2015-11-03 | IRC v3 Working Group | bpierre | 3 | 0 |
| 2016-09-24 | IRCv3 | tete | 4 | 0 |
| 2016-10-02 | IRCv3 (working group) | cm3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2016-10-09 | IRC v3First breakout · Best thread | bpierre | 595 | 217 |
| 2019-09-12 | IRCv3 – Open, extensible, feature-rich chat, proven through years of use | diggan | 4 | 0 |
| 2020-10-28 | IRCv3 | laktak | 3 | 0 |
| 2021-05-19 | IRCv3Hall induction · Latest 20+ point return | xvilka | 130 | 94 |