This article is dedicated to the Finnish rap group Lyömättömät, who use IRC to interact with the audience of their national radio show. Let’s look at the happenings in the IRC ecosystem during the first half of 2021. Palaver ❤️ Ergo A cool collaboration story during this period is Palaver iOS app working with Ergo daemon (formerly known as Oragono) in order to build a new standard on push notifications for IRC (Ergo issues 1527 and 1626 discuss the topic). Ergo now offers a network intended for production use. The network provides always-on, chat history and multiclient functionality out of the box, without the need to set up your own bouncer. It also supports relaying messages to channels on other networks, implementing the still unpublished RELAYMSG spec.