nodester/irc — pull request #29 by microp11 (2012-03-29 20:27:55+00:00)
Title: The main window opens after the very first message arriving from the IRC server.

Motd gets displayed as it comes.

The irc-js does a few things automatically on connenting to the irc server:

-the usual login
- a call to /motd
- a call to /names

The call to motd was not handled in the past.
That does not mean the motd content was not arriving to the nodester end of the connection (taking its time, and line by line).
Same with the call to /names.

Other implementations of the irc protocol for node, like "irc" (not irc-js) do not make these default extra requests. That is why they connect faster.