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> IRC isn't persistent (i.e. you can't read messages delivered while you were offline) It’s chat, not email. That’s a natural feature of the medium. In the a
by josteink 8y ago
> IRC isn't persistent (i.e. you can't read messages delivered while you were offline)
It’s chat, not email.
That’s a natural feature of the medium.
In the age of Google, why on earth would you want to record everything?
- intertextuality 8y agoAt least for me, I participate in a lot of programming channels. I've saved a lot of stuff for later, that would otherwise be a pain to ask someone to answer it again. I log basically all of my irc chats because 1. storage is cheap 2. you never know when something could be useful later Let's not pretend individual nerds in IRC chat recording history is anything remotely close to what google is doing.