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IRC per se doesn't hold any message when you weren't logged in. Reason enough not to use it.
by Faaak 7y ago
IRC per se doesn't hold any message when you weren't logged in. Reason enough not to use it.
- pgeorgi 7y agoHolding messages is a client side task in IRC. Which works because IRC is a protocol, not a product.
- ivanhoe 7y agoWe used bots to do that, but in todays world it's so easy to just stay logged in all the time, just leave a screen or tmux session running as a background process on a server
- mikorym 7y agoHow would you do it without using screen, or bots as you say?
- harias 7y agoI am using Riot messenger. It can sync both Matrix and IRC accounts. Link - https://about.riot.im/ https://about.riot.im/
- EKSolutions 7y agoI personally use an IRC Bouncer. ZNC for instance is a really good one
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- ryeguy_24 7y agoWould people pay for for a cloud service that bridged some of the gaps between Slack and IRC. Like notifications and offline message retention. Or would you just use Slack in those cases?
- mikorym 7y agoYou can use the log command and then run in on a screen instance. This may be inconvenient for some people, but for me this is a feature.
- mavhc 7y agoBut slack actively makes it difficult to get logs out of it. Can't even save your own messages that you sent when you were logged in. Easy to stay logged into irc, hard to fix slack's logging problem
- badpixelbr 7y agojust use ZNC. why should us pay for something free? https://wiki.znc.in/ZNC https://wiki.znc.in/ZNC
- mavhc 7y agoIndeed, you're still paying for electricity to run a server somewhere of course. ZNC, Quassel, The Lounge, WeeChat if you want to do it yourself. IRCCloud if you want to pay someone to do it for you.