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Posted Feb 23, 2026 2:20 UTC (Mon) by mroche (subscriber, #137163)
In reply to: IRC by marcH
Parent article: Open-source Discord alternatives

> So when I hear "modern" I understand that out of the box I can go offline and not miss messages. Maybe even have multiple devices (e.g. laptop+phone) in sync with each other. I suspect most people take that for granted in this day and age.

Have you taken a look at the IRCv3 developments in the works. Several of its goals are addressing issues related to these problems.

https://ircv3.net/

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Posted Feb 23, 2026 3:31 UTC (Mon) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link] (1 responses)

I had never heard of IRCv3, sorry I kept writing "it's dying" above. Maybe it's not too late?

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Posted Feb 24, 2026 3:00 UTC (Tue) by mroche (subscriber, #137163) [Link]

First sentence was supposed to end with a question mark 😅

I personally don't use IRC anymore. The need ended when Fedora and CentOS migrated to Matrix. But I do find the v3 work interesting, but like anything else it only moves forward if people put in the effort.