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## IRCd (Charybdis) Client
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This client provides a fully functioning Matrix chat experience in addition to driving the server
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administration functions of IRCd. This client should not de-prioritize the chat client features
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in favor of focusing on server admin: it is testbed for any new features and experimentation
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conducted with IRCd.
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The "Matrix" chat protocol is an extensible and recursively structured approach to the next
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evolution of the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) protocol. Though not syntactically backwards-compatible
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with the IRC protocol, it can be easily translated as a superset. Similar to IRC protocol's
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origins, it wisely leverages technologies in vogue for its day to aid the virility of
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implementations.
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As the 3rd major-version evolution of IRC, we refer to IRC^3 or "IRC cubed" or "Matrix protocol"
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as all the same entity.
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Matrix protocol achieves what the last IRC protocol could not, among other things: a
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consolidated internetworked federation of servers/networks that can all speak to each other.
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Authority in the federation is partitioned by domain-names and uses the standard URL system.
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IRCv2 is deadlocked in part because of the ecosystem of servers and clients are old; they push
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the limits of cross-platform compatibility to deliver the best graphical or terminal experience
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from their day (and to this day!). The protocol has shallow structure; evolving it adds inelegant
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complexity. There was no attempt at forward-compatibility; it is easily broken. The initiative to
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propose and develop a new feature with widespread adoption is suppressed by these facts.
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While the first conception of the IRC protocol in 1988 made considerations for a person typing
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at a local or remote-access textual terminal, matrix makes considerations for "the web." The
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protocol stands on the shoulders of JSON content transferred via HTTP requests. This choice
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permits the seamless implementation of clients developed with the best choice for developing
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a client in this epoch: the javascript-actuated stylized-document object in a browser -- which
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is customized dynamically from the server.
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