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Why is IRCv3 still relegating chat history to "IRC bouncers" instead of making it a feature of the protocol? Chat history makes chat more usable, and it makes
by rspeer 10y ago
Why is IRCv3 still relegating chat history to "IRC bouncers" instead of making it a feature of the protocol?
Chat history makes chat more usable, and it makes it usable at all on intermittent connections.
- herbst 10y agowhy would they include that? (Seriously curious) As far as i can tell it would add no benefit but only overhead to the protocol.
- angry-hacker 10y agoMy opinion is because it's the vital feature, after sending and receiving images itself, that irc needs. It's like asking why would http protocol allow users to send data. Receiving is enough.
- Snowdax 10y agoRegulation. Having a full record of important conversations to fall back to for legal reasons is a big part of both corporate and governmental policies. Clinton's emails being deleted being an example of why ethereal messages are not taken lightly
- rspeer 10y agoAre you okay with missing messages, or do you only ever communicate with people over an always-on wired connection?
- herbst 10y agoIMO thats the magic of IRC. Channels i care about i bounce, channels i do not care i dont bounce in. If messages would wait for me that would mean so much overhead for the protocol. I like IRC because its simple. I've build a IRC out of boredom, and a bouncer because the one i used missed a feature i wanted. Please nobody take that simplicity away :/
- herbst 10y agoI just thought about the server implementation. This is simply not dueable. IRC servers are ment to run thousands of users, caching messages would be awful.
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