> Usually you'll have a bot gather the channel's history that you can ping and most IRC clients collect the history locally. In the use cases that -most- people

> Usually you'll have a bot gather the channel's history that you can ping and most IRC clients collect the history locally. In the use cases that -most- people use Slack for, it's identical to IRC. Yeah, that's not nearly the same. What I love about HipChat (and I'm sure Slack is the same, but I don't know) is that you can connect from any device and see the room history when you join a room. Going to some website to scroll back to see what people were talking about before you joined is annoying, especially so on a phone.