I don't understand this. Older protocols don't keep any state. Many people were quite upset when old Usenet archives came online. IRC, XMPP, by default, servers

I don't understand this. Older protocols don't keep any state. Many people were quite upset when old Usenet archives came online. IRC, XMPP, by default, servers don't keep any state. So why is that Discord would be required to keep state? And then the freenode story shows, even if you effectively lock up all meta data. People still think IRC is great and move to the next network.