Coders-IRC

IRC (Internet Relay Chat) has been around since 1988, which makes it ancient in Internet terms.And although it’s still used by hundreds of thousands of users around the world, IRC has seen a dramatic downturn in usage.We have talked to the creator of IRC, and others, about why the once so widely used technology has seemingly fallen out of favor with so many users.The origins of IRCWe connected with Jarkko Oikarinen, the creator of IRC, who works at Google in Sweden, and he told us the story...

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This version of InspIRCd was released on 2022-12-30.Added <sslprofile:tlsv13> to the ssl_openssl module for disabling TLS 1.3.Added support for forcing the use of TLS (SSL) in a MySQL database connection.Added support for the IRCv3 extended-monitor extension.Added the WebSocket error message to the body of the response when closing with an error.Added the inspircd.org/echo vendor tag to echoed messages.Added the regex_pcre2 module which provides the pcre regex engine with PCRE2.Added the...