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IRCv3 lacks a logo, a startup, and VC funding. So people who write tech news seem to often be unaware that it even exists.

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Not sure why you were downvoted. What you said is true - there's little to write about for pure tech projects like that when there's no flashy video to show off. You'd have to figure out how to message it to reach a wider audience which honestly seems difficult to me.

It's also lacking adoption (which is understandable since it's not "officially released" yet).

I believe twitch uses ircv3.

Wow, you're correct. I did not know that. Fun!

Twitch is fairly-conforming to IRCv3... they don't prefix their non-standard capabilities with their domain in CAP LS. :>

I'm sad because I applied to Twitch directly stating what I'd want to work on with the IRC portal and never got a response. My entire work history is IRC. XD

Doesn't it also lack a common, arguably nice, frontend? With integrations to everything under the sun pre-built, requiring no management by the implementers? Built in bouncers, searchable history, etc?

A frontend is actually the one thing it's not lacking. IRCCloud.com supports ircv3 and is a very nice "slacky" UI to IRC.

Sadly IRCCloud is still lacking one 100% crucial feature: a backlog search. I've been a paying IRCCloud user for almost 2 years now and back then they already had the search feature on the roadmap as "coming soon". The only way right now is to keep scrolling and scrolling and then some more scrolling until you find what you are looking for. In a busy channel this is pretty much pointless.

Completely tangential but if you use quassel, check this little thing I built for a channel we own:

https://github.com/jleclanche/quassel-weblog

There's a demo in the URL field (not hotlinking here directly because it's a weak server). I didn't really document it but there's backlog search, ?highlight=<nick> functionality and it's straightforward to add functionality.

I agree it's "Slacky", but the interface itself is very much traditional IRC.

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