Not that I’m complaining, I just find it kinda interesting given how so much stuff demands you sign up & register to do much of anything on a service or site.

Is it simply a cool cultural element that’s persisted since IRC’s been around? Also shoutout to all the old hat IRC folks out there maintaining their servers and enabling drop-in questions this way, much appreciated!

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    1 year ago

    The IRC protocol has no concept of registering so implementing registration is a lot of unnecessary effort.

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      1 year ago

      To wit, someone else could log in with your username and people probably couldn’t tell the difference

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        There are service bots, that are used by many of the irc networks, that handle this within irc itself (nickserv, chanserv, etc…).