The scroll up on IRC problem is typically solved with various "bnc" or "bouncer" mechanisms. I've also encountered an IRC server that caches and rebroadcasts t

The scroll up on IRC problem is typically solved with various "bnc" or "bouncer" mechanisms. I've also encountered an IRC server that caches and rebroadcasts the last hour of messages. But yeah with IRC you run into the problem that it wasn't originally designed for that use. > Mastodon proved that you can actually build a usable app on a federated service I don't see how anything needs to be "proved." Do we actually need proof that IRC could cache messages and repeat them for joining clients? It just wasn't originally designed that way. XMPP also has an extension for caching the scroll.