Is MODE still shown to IRC clients?

[BarryCarlyon]

@vanosg

@xangold I’ve seen your name in some of these posts, my two cents for improving documentation would be to clarify that clients can’t send MODE messages on Twitch, as this is a deviation from IRC RFC and IRC devs might expect that functionality without something saying it is read-only. If there is a better way to submit such requests for consideration/improvement? Just trying to give back where I can, thanks!

Documentation fixes can be suggested on the uservoice, not by pinging staff

https://twitch.uservoice.com/forums/310213-developers?category_id=358000

(which is also linked at the bottom of the documentation pages)

Twitch doesn’t (fully) implement the RFC, TMI is a custom chat implementation that is available via an IRC port (and over websockets) that looks like IRC but it isn’t.

@vanosg

And regardless of channel size, it seems that MODE messages should be generated, but I still can’t see them even in a 3-user channel. I’m still trying to validate why they are not appearing, if anyone has any theories or can confirm they also do not see MODE messages. It would be much appreciated.

The general consensus is that they stop working in 1k+, and are generally not reliable, as tags/badges should be used instead. If you are not getting them, sounds like that sub system has dropped offline again (it’s no reliable, as again, tags/badges are the correct method to check for op status or other roles). I don’t bother even parsing for them (modes), as Tags/Badges are the correct way to check for moderator status (or other roles) in a channel