"(IRC)" should only be part of the display, not of the message

[pchampin]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. When I use auto-completion to mention an IRC user (say 'john'), my matrix client auto-completes it as 'john (IRC)'. While I don't mind it being displayed "john (IRC)" in Matrix (it is an interesting info), I don't think that this precision should be part of the actual message sent to IRC.

• for human IRC users, it might be surprising
• for some bots, it prevents them from working (because they expect something like <their_name>, <command> and don't recognize <their_name> (IRC), <command>).

Describe the solution you'd like Either use "(IRC)" only in the Matrix client, but not in the messages sent to IRC, or (if it is too complex), drop the "(IRC)" mention all together (or make it configurable).

[Mikaela]

Which bridge and client are you seeing this with? It may be an issue with that particular instance as the "(IRC)" suffix was dropped back in August 2018 https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/issues/194#issuecomment-415734087 (and before that in 2016 "Riot" used to remove it automatically https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/issues/194#issuecomment-268208287).

[pchampin]

the "(IRC)" suffix was dropped back in August 2018 Was it? Interesting :thinking:

I am using Element Desktop for Linux: Element version: 1.10.11 Olm version: 3.2.8

My server is matrix.org. An example IRC channel I use is https://matrix.to/#/#_w3c_#rdf-dev:matrix.org

[tadzik]

This is indeed a misconfiguration of w3c bridge on matrix org, due to the fact that this is the IRC bridge's default behaviour. Dropping it from the example config is probably a sensible thing to default to.

[pchampin]

Is it something that I should discuss with the people at Matrix.org? The people at W3C?

[tadzik]

That's something that we, as a team maintaining matrix.org bridges, need to do – shouldn't be long now :)