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IRC is almost always logged, and if you need to log things yourself, you can use a bouncer or set up a server.
by tovej 5y ago
IRC is almost always logged, and if you need to log things yourself, you can use a bouncer or set up a server.
- Ekaros 5y agoAnd if your bouncer or server fails? Where do you get the history then?
- morceauxdebois 5y agoWhat if the discord servers fail and your history is lost?
- gs17 5y agoOr if Discord decides storing unlimited history isn't something they want to provide to everyone for free anymore.
- Fnoord 5y agoYou put in a search engine network_name channel_name and hope someone else logged. If its a technical channel, someone almost always did and also did share it.
- aliswe 5y agono offense, but this answer sums up the reason why Discord is more popular than IRC. Not to say that Discord isnt deeply flawed in many respects, like client weight/resource usage, abysmal search (in server but especially DMs, coarse and clunky permissions systems, audit situation? and the very fact that using animated emojis will cost you 5 dollars per month is just stealing sweets from children, and their absolutely sickening boost (ponzi?) scheme...
- CRConrad 5y ago> no offense, but this answer sums up the reason why Discord is more popular than IRC. No, the reason for that is more likely that all the darn generation-Z kids are deathly afraid (and therefore pretend to be deeply contemptuous) of any old-fashioned technology created by Unix greybeards. (Now geroffmylawn.)
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