Re: Bridges to nowhere

[J.P.]

"J.P." <jp@neverwas.me> writes:

> Bridges to non-IRC communities are often sustained by "relay bots" that
> forward messages back and forth. IRC seems to have drawn the short straw
> in this arrangement because there currently aren't any standards for
> representing a remote presence in the native IRC context (which leads to
> a rather painful user experience, IMO).

A couple developments in the 1.5+ years since this was posted. The first
is there's now a package that solves this UX nightmare (yay!):

  https://git.sr.ht/~technomancy/erc-bridge-nicks

The second is that the original POC has been repurposed in the context
of an unrelated bug focusing on improving ERC's message-construction
API:

  https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=68861#8

Thanks.