Maybe by default, but given the author talks about the dozens of different bots available, logging the chat is a trivial thing to do, and most irc clients autom

Maybe by default, but given the author talks about the dozens of different bots available, logging the chat is a trivial thing to do, and most irc clients automatically log. In the case of linode, (at least back in the day I remember) they automatically post those online for anyone to search in case you could learn something from someone else asking questions in their irc channel. Does slack do that for you?