I know I'll be dowvoted to oblivion but I'll say it anyway...

You advocate for privacy, You advocate for openness, You advocate for transparency, You advocate for interoperability, You advocate for host-it-yourself, You advocate for customisability, You advocate for scriptability ...

But then all of a sudden "oh no IRC, not enough colours, geez, running a bouncer, who wants to do it?"

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I'd design irc-v3 to be bouncer-friendly, and maybe to integrate some bouncer-y features into IRC servers as well (most IRC servers keep logs anyway)