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by jayflux 686 days ago
IRC was home to a lot of gaming communities, it was basically Discord before that existed. There used to be live commentary in channels (Twitch replaced this).

I don’t believe any gamers use it today but fringe-tech communities still use it, I think that’s what the parent is referring to.
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RF_Savage 686 days ago
Does the Twitch IRC side still work? As their chat is based on IRC. I did participate on a few streams chat with a normal IRC client a few years back.

Ah, Xircon, Quakenet and Counter-Strike. Those were the days.

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ekimekim 686 days ago
Yes, their chat is still compatible with IRC, albeit with lots of extensions (which you can opt into using IRCv3 capabilitiy negotiation). More recently they've been adding UI elements on the main site that are web API powered instead of chat though (eg. polls, sending bits).
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