IRC nick beginning with ? gets rendered as {$author}

[DankRank]

ZNC bouncer has a module which allows ZNC users chat with eachother even if they are connected to different networks. It's effectively an ircd inside a bouncer. The side-effect is that all nicknames are prefixed with question mark.

The template doesn't get replaced properly by discord-irc, so such nick is displayed as {$author} in Discord.

Needless to say, this bug is low priority, as normal ircds won't allow question marks in nicknames.

[Throne3d]

I expect this is down to the upstream IRC library failing to parse the nickname in the message string, so it's mostly a bug with irc-upd – I've created an issue for this here and will try to get to it… within the next month? :P

Separately, it might be worth figuring out a fallback, in discord-irc, for if the author's name can't be found. Maybe we should flag it up in the console? I'm not sure what we'd put in the relayed message, though.

[Throne3d]

This is now fixed upstream, so when a new version of the library is released (and a new version of this, with that in), it'll be fixed.

[Throne3d]

This should've been fixed in irc-upd 0.9.0, and so shouldn't have been a problem in this bot for a while now. Please reopen this if the issue persists (with your discord-irc version)!