Username changes / Identifying users?

[Kinsi]

Well i guess just like other crucial bugs / issues this thread is dead now.

Sub-streak STILL not fixed after 4 months?

When can we finally expect a fix for this? This is still happening, and i cant believe that it would take more than 4 months to track down this issue. Previous thread: People (randomly?) announcing a larger sub streak than they are on? Still no way to get resubs trouch the API either, eventhough V5 would’ve been perfect to introduce it. Also, eventhough reported months ago, there still is no proper way to reference to the “real” user for initial subscriptions, is there? Its literally one extr…

How to detect initial subscriptions for people with "special" names

Hey there, with the update of localized display names for korean, chinese and japanese, the display-names are no longer useful for identifying users. Before, in 99.99% of all cases you could just lowercase the display-name and get the nick, with which you can query the kraken-api for further details. Now that the display-names differ much more often, this has become a big problem for detecting subscriptions. Initial subscriptions, unlike resubscriptions, don’t have a dedicated IRC event. Theref…