[Arathorn]

We’re aware of folks objecting that messages longer than 3 lines get autopastebinned, and that replies are a bit jarring on IRC. Or do you have something else in mind?

Impedance mismatches are inevitable, but we obviously don’t want Matrix to crap over native experiences on IRC or elsewhere. So: give us specifics and we’ll fix as best we can.

[pabs3]

The reply issue is pretty hard to solve, since sometimes the extra text is useful, sometimes it isn't. Perhaps if there has been N minutes or X lines of chat since the message being replied to, then include the extra text, otherwise don't. The template should be changed to something like this though:

    <foo[m]> bar: re "hello about something longis...", hello!
    <foo[m]> bar: re "short hello", hello!

Those are the main ones, a few more:

Image uploads could probably just post a link to the image instead using /me uploaded an image: foo.png (123KiB) < https://matrix.org/_matrix/media/r0/download/matrix.org/....... >

Directing a message at a specific person on the channel sometimes posts their full Matrix URL on the IRC side, rather than just using their IRC nick:

    <foo[m]> [bar](https://matrix.to/#/@bar:matrix.org): hello

Directing a message at a specific person on the channel sometimes posts their full name on the IRC side, rather than using their IRC nick:

    <foo[m]> Bar Baz: hello

Matrix <> IRC splits seem to occur more often than IRC netsplits.

[auscompgeek]

> Directing a message at a specific person on the channel sometimes posts their full Matrix URL on the IRC side, rather than just using their IRC nick:

    <foo[m]> [bar](https://matrix.to/#/@bar:matrix.org): hello

This one is a client-side bug, not a bridge bug.

> Directing a message at a specific person on the channel sometimes posts their full name on the IRC side, rather than using their IRC nick:

    <foo[m]> Bar Baz: hello

This should only be a thing when mentioning non-IRC users. Is this actually a problem?

[pabs3]

> This one is a client-side bug, not a bridge bug.

Hmm, in IRC clients or Matrix ones? Which clients?

> This should only be a thing when mentioning non-IRC users. Is this actually a problem?

Yes, because it makes it harder to follow the conversation from the IRC side because the full name from the Matrix side isn't available on the IRC side and even if it were present in the IRC "real name" field, it would still be hard to map from real names to IRC nicks, which is why IRC users never address each other using their real names, only their nicks.