# Founders are not marked as subscriber in IRC

**URL:** <https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/founders-are-not-marked-as-subscriber-in-irc/22792>\
**Category:** Chat and IRC\
**Created:** [October 10, 2019, 7:59pm UTC](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/founders-are-not-marked-as-subscriber-in-irc/22792 "2019-10-10T19:59:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![lucaber](https://d1d6mrmdu7ztse.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/lucaber/32/7196_2.png) [@lucaber](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/lucaber)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2019, 7:59pm UTC](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/founders-are-not-marked-as-subscriber-in-irc/22792/1 "2019-10-10T19:59:10Z")

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Hi,

i am currently building a twitch chat bot and noticed an issue with the new Founder feature.

The IRC message contains a tag on each message to indicate whether a user is a subscriber in the current channel:  
@badge-info=subscriber/44[…]; **subscriber=1** :user[…]

Now, a message from a founder looks like that:  
@badge-info=founder/44[…]; **subscriber=0** :user[…]

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**Author:** ![BarryCarlyon](https://d1d6mrmdu7ztse.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/barrycarlyon/32/253_2.png) [@BarryCarlyon](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/BarryCarlyon)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2019, 8:55pm UTC](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/founders-are-not-marked-as-subscriber-in-irc/22792/2 "2019-10-10T20:55:21Z")

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A founder is a sub.

The Subscriber tag is deprecated and not to be used.

Please use badges instead

Supported tags are here:

> **[Twitch IRC Tags](https://dev.twitch.tv/docs/irc/tags/#privmsg-twitch-tags)**
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> Twitch IRC Tags Most IRC messages provide enough information that you can figure out what happened. For example, in the following PRIVMSG message, you know that user abc posted HeyGuys in the xyz channel. :abc!abc@abc.tmi.twitch.tv PRIVMSG #xyz...

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**Author:** ![system](https://d2spem0quai2ol.cloudfront.net/original/2X/0/05909729875cce3b53e59d5561c4d23bb14948fc.png) [@system](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 9:03pm UTC](https://staging-discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/founders-are-not-marked-as-subscriber-in-irc/22792/3 "2019-11-09T21:03:38Z")

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