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by ryanlol 3795 days ago
But seems like this would be fundamentally incompatible with the normal IRC clients that most people currently use.

jwheare2 keeps talking about the existing irc ecosystem and communities, but I really doubt any of the big ones would be switching over.
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jwheare2 3795 days ago
freenode and most of the runner up biggest networks are on board with IRCv3. Also, the specs are backwards compatible by design.
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ryanlol 3793 days ago
>Also, the specs are backwards compatible by design.

The spec may be, but I doubt any of the examples you gave would ever be compatible with irssi & co.

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anonbanker 3792 days ago
why wouldn't they be? svgalib and directfb allow irssi to display avatars in full color. You could use libcaca to reduce them down to ascii, if needed.

Either way, the point of an extension is that it degrades gracefully if the extension is not supported. Users that can see avatars get to see avatars. the ones that don't care don't lose the rest of the experience.

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ryanlol 3792 days ago
>why wouldn't they be? svgalib and directfb allow irssi to display avatars in full color. You could use libcaca to reduce them down to ascii, if needed.

Yes for both of the people running irssi in a framebuffer console, libcaca would obviously need ridiculously large avatars.

>Either way, the point of an extension is that it degrades gracefully if the extension is not supported. Users that can see avatars get to see avatars. the ones that don't care don't lose the rest of the experience.

Yeah, but the ones that do don't see any avatars either, because they're the only ones that support it.

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