[SaberUK]

>My favourite bit is how they skipped adding length negotiation and it is causing them problems already.

We are working on it but when you have hundreds of different implementations which are all broken in their own way its not as easy as just adding a way to negotiate the length. Extending the length to add an extra 512 octets for message tags was a temporary fix.

>Now if they had started with fixing the actual protocol they wouldn't have had to deal with that.

We HAVE started with working on fixing the protocol. Almost all of the specifications in IRCv3.1 and most of the specifications in IRCv3.2 fix core protocol issues.