Twitch Whisper Hexchat
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S4ntaClaws · 2015-06-26 14:57

Twitch has launched their new irc v3 thing, with it a new feature
called "whispers", basically private messages.

For some reason however, the only way I can get it to work in my irc
client, is by joining a random group chat (also introduced with irc
v3), which requires you to join a separate irc server, depending on
the group chat.

tl;dr - I'm forced to have two irc servers open simultaneously, if I
want to get whispers from twitch users, and read the regular chat.
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fyi: I use hexchat

I was wondering, if anybody has a slick solution to sort of have the
secondary server running in the background, but be able to send
commands to that server, through the primary servers cli. And also
have specific messages from the secondary server printed in the
primary servers cli.

Either that ^ or even better, have a completely separate gui for it,
instead of using the primary server cli - sort of like a regular pm
box.

I hope I made myself clear, in spite of my terrible title.

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kevelbreh · 2015-08-25 11:54

Check out the difference in the protocol being used between the
original IRC RFC and the Twitch chat's V3.

It's easy using Mirc. Use:  //window -e @raw | debug @raw

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Xangold · 2015-09-04 08:41

IRC v3 is a proposed(?) spec. Whispers are the same technology that
the rest of the site uses, you just have to send it to a specific user
on a different network.
As you surmised you'll need to connect twice, once to regular chat,
once to group chat.

 To send a whisper, send a
    PRIVMSG jtv :/w whisper text

In mirc that would look like messaging a user with "/w hi there"