Deprecation of chat commands through IRC

[DevMcGee]

I suspect there is a language barrier here.

@Dkamps18

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

I can see where you got the impression that I thought it was, and I’m sorry to have frustrated you to think that I still believe it even after having been corrected. I repeated that those commands will continue to work on the Twitch website. I did not say how they will continue to work. I did say that they will not use “common” APIs.

@Dkamps18

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

It requires an update for that functionality to continue working. Without updating, the functionality will be broken.

@Dkamps18

Like mentioned before in this thread and this post it does make things more consistent

You are entitled to your opinion, but it’s disingenuous to suggest it is a settled matter. I am of the completely opposite opinion.

@Dkamps18

1st party and 3rd parties all using an API rather than 1st party using an API and 3rd party sending commands over IRC.

(Emphasis added.) Here it seems you are mistaken. Twitch uses different APIs from third-parties. If Twitch decides at some point to stop using its exclusive, undocumented APIs, that will be a big improvement. Tmi recognizing chat commands has not been preventing Twitch from making that change.