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Wouldn’t the same message history hacks apply to IRC? It’s an ephemeral platform by nature, so unless you have a bot logging conversations somewhere, it’s the s

• dijit 8y ago
  I am an IRC operator of nearly 20 years; and I guess I'm here to say: "it depends". Speaking about IRC as if all IRC servers that came before are all IRC is capable of is.. odd.. it would be trivial to create an inspircd module that pushed data into elasticsearch.. At the same time, clients log by default too, they just don't expose a way of searching the logs they generate.. IRC is a (dated, stateful connection based) protocol; nothing more, it's a shame there are not nicer clients because of all the functionality slack has; are easily "add"-able to IRC, bar one- it's ability to handle network disconnections well. IRC+Bouncer is how most people interact with IRC today; however it's a workaround for a problem users should not have. There is a company called IRCCloud who are attempting to make IRC easy to use, much in the way slack do by operating a webclient+bouncer bundle for you.. You could also self-host something like "The Lounge" which does effectively the same thing: https://github.com/thelounge https://github.com/thelounge (I am not affiliated with either). However I'm aware that the above options are both significant barriers to entry when compared to slack. that is the _real_ value of slack, onboarding people into a slack discussion is a breeze, and once you have someone there there's no tangible reason to move to something else.