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> I think there's a different barrier to entry since users may want old chat history (bouncers), IRC-specific spam and client choices (GUI, CLI, no mobile??) I expect there are mobile choices, but if not, someone can write one; however, there is also possibility of having web chat (which seems to be common), etc. (However, I dislike the web chats that do not display the information for using IRC clients. They should be made to display such information even if JavaScript is disabled.) For history, it is possible to have public logs for public channels, which can be either recorded by a dedicated client, or recorded by the server (although using a client is probably more common, it can be done on the server as well). > I'm pretty sure IRC networks used to be somewhat anti-Unicode? correct me if I'm wrong You can use multiple character sets on IRC, including Unicode. (If necessary, you might use ISO 2022 to switch between them, although this does not seem to be common.) (Also, some older IRC servers might not be 8-bit clean, and so might some newer ones that require Unicode (which are only partially 8-bit clean), unfortunately; however, any proper IRC server should be really 8-bit clean in order to avoid these problems.) |