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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon ircv3

Client cap for detached channel messages

Open emersion opened this issue 4 years ago • 3 comments

Some bouncers can be configured to "detach" a channel (join it on the server side, but don't make clients join it). Usually highlights (or messages matching a user-configured pattern) are still relayed to clients via NOTICEs.

Would it be desirable to add a cap to allow bouncers to send PRIVMSG/NOTICE messages for channels not joined by clients? This would allow for instance clients to display a notification which, when clicked, properly open the channel tab (scrolling at the right message for context).

emersion avatar Mar 26 '21 18:03 emersion

Is a CAP needed for this? Can't you already send messages targeted at channels you're not joined to?

jwheare avatar Mar 26 '21 18:03 jwheare

Ah, I need to try and see how various existing clients handle this. I just assumed this wouldn't work well since ZNC sends some NOTICE messages in this case.

emersion avatar Mar 26 '21 19:03 emersion

It appears many clients just drop the message.

emersion avatar Mar 29 '21 11:03 emersion