Twitch IRCv3 Tags

[Colten45]

@moocat

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If Twitch would actually build something meant for its 3rd party tools instead of just for their own features, it would be a gain for all of us, including Twitch’s users.

EDIT: That doesn’t mean the particular additions brought up in this thread necessarily have merit though, but other additions and changes might.

I think @moocat hit the nail right on the head with this. We all know the tags are for the twitch web chat. Twitch has done an amazing job with making additions and changes that we talk about on this forum though. Instead of a pure yes no response, lets talk about it. What new tags would you guys like to see?

@3ventic

Userstate is only sent to the user, whose userstate it is, and since it
never changes, it would be more appropriate for globaluserstate. I still
don’t really see the use for it since a simple API lookup will also
reveal it and you only need to look it up once.

I agree the globaluserstate would be the best place for a tag “created”. An api lookup might be too expensive especially with a new bot coming into a new “for the bot” channel with a lot of users talking.

What about the possibility to request specific tags. A bot doesn’t need color and most times the display name as well. I believe having a default set of tags for requesting the tags capability then the ability to request specific tags maybe through the commands they are used on “except privmsg idk how that would work” Maybe this would be better talked about in the issues section for the ircv3 specs on github? idk, But at least starting a convo about this will help us all.