I've done development in and around IRC since ~2014, and this post is really a long time coming. It summarizes discussions I've had, heated ones too, about the viability of IRC as a mainstream chat platform today, and into the future. As someone who's been accused of "hating IRC" and being "pointles...

The Trouble with PyLink

Five years ago, I started PyLink as a challenge: create a multi-network IRC services engine that would be the basis for transparent relaying between networks. The goal of this project was simple: allow networks to loosely federate and share channels while still maintainin...