Issues for large (many channels) bots

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@Brandon

So how are people handling this? Just spreading out large channels evenly? Are there any cases that are so extreme that a single channel would require its own connection for receiving? My local dev server is struggling hard to even join 3 of the top 20 channels right now, sometimes not even 1 of them, and this is with TC3. I can join all 20 when I push this code to my Heroku production environment with TC3. I suspect that my local connection (likely the router) is responsible for this when developing locally, but it seems pretty insane that I’m being dropped after 1 or 2 channels. I’ll troubleshoot that on my own, but my original question is still valid.

I would imagine that with 1 or 2 channels you will not run into this case I mention. The reason the top 20 channels causes you to be disconnected is due to the NAMES replies being incredibly long. Additionally, the JOINs and PARTs of large channels can contribute to this issue as they are sent out in batches every ~20 seconds. With TC3, you really shouldn’t have any issue with channels unless you’re in multiple (more than 1 or 2) fast moving ones on the same connection.