@slavasmirnov / @kentasama I want to acknowledge your feedback and let you know it has been received - thank you for sharing your thoughts.
As suggested, Extension chat messages are not sent via IRC and do not currently render in clients that are exclusively reading the IRC feed - this is a known limitation. Without getting into too many details, the Extension chat tech works this way for a few reasons:
- It allows the developer to send chat messages without creating and managing a Twitch user account
- It allows us to clearly attribute the chat message with the Extension that sent it with a differentiated user card
- It unlocks future capabilities such as rich/interactive chat messages that won’t work through IRC alone
There are probably some creative solutions here to solve the 3p client challenge - thanks again for prompting us to think about this scenario as we build out future capabilities within chat.