title: Is it okay to use a free IRC channel as a realtime server of sorts for my small app?
body: <p>I'm currently working on an app that will need some realtime communication between two clients. Not necessarily text chat. I was wondering if I can utilize free IRC services like Freenode to act as the backend of sorts for my app's communication?</p>
  
  <p>I skimmed through their TOS and I couldn't find anything against it. But I want to know if there are some gotchas that I need to be aware of.</p>