Deprecation of chat commands through IRC

[Dkamps18]

@DevMcGee

That is irrelevant, has never been the case, and likely never will be. In this case, Twitch will continue to maintain access to the chat commands from the website and won’t be using “common” APIs to do it.

As mentioned to you earlier in this thread, Twitch hasn’t sent the commands entered on the website over irc for ages but instead sent them to an API, so you’d be incorrect in saying they wouldn’t be using APIs to do it but its rather the opposite, we as 3rd party devs weren’t using an API to do it while they where using an API for months

@DevMcGee

There is a difference between adding features and removing functionality. I can add support for new features when and if I feel like it. In that case, that feature just won’t be available for a while. In this case, basic functionality will be broken.

Basic functionality won’t be broken its just requiring an update.

@DevMcGee

That doesn’t mean I can’t complain when breaking changes are made, and moreso when the justification is illogical. It’ll somehow enable new chat features, make things more consistent, and more convenient. There’s some serious doublespeak going on here.

Like mentioned before in this thread and this post it does make things more consistent, 1st party and 3rd parties all using an API rather than 1st party using an API and 3rd party sending commands over IRC. There’s no double speaking going on as both using an API would be consistent while 1st party using an API and 3rd parties using IRC as is the current case would not be consistent.