Flooding other clients with NAMES lists

[wiiaam]

Whenever a channel mode is changed, it is requesting the NAMES list in that channel. This isn't an issue on lounge itself, but when I have it connected to my bouncer, I am seeing names list flooding on my other clients (especially when the channel has a lot of users).

Most clients tend to update the users list with channel ranks as soon as they are spotted, and will periodically send out a WHO command to different channels to update the userlists manually, in case one was missed.

[omnicons]

Turn on route replies in your bouncer. This isn't really a bug, you just
haven't properly enabled the feature on your own bouncer, don't blame the
client for something that's not its fault.

On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 5:00 AM, William Howell notifications@github.com
wrote:

Whenever a channel mode is changed, it is requesting the NAMES list in
that channel. This isn't an issue on lounge itself, but when I have it
connected to my bouncer, I am seeing names list flooding on my other
clients (especially when the channel has a lot of users).

Most clients tend to update the users list with channel ranks as soon as
they are spotted, and will periodically send out a WHO command to different
channels to update the userlists manually, in case one was missed.

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[wiiaam]

@omnicons but the client shouldn't be sending out NAMES requests anyway, it should just be logging the channel most when it sees it. NAMES is a user command to print the user list, it wasn't designed to be used to track channel modes by the client (it even states this in RFC 1459). This also means that until this is fixed, users are unable to use the /names command properly in the client. It would be better to use WHO instead as it is parsed in the background of pretty much every IRC client.

[omnicons]

Fair enough, until then or if it's not something they prioritize, I suggest using route replies. Its not this client's fault that you're on a bouncer and not using that module. It's really useful anyway, and should probably be enabled. Thanks for the information though, I don't read the IRC RFC so I suppose that's somewhat enlightening.