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IRC daemons aren't saving PRIVMSGs and other events to disk. They send them to the target user/channel and then that memory is freed. This comparison makes no
by brobinson 4y ago
IRC daemons aren't saving PRIVMSGs and other events to disk. They send them to the target user/channel and then that memory is freed. This comparison makes no sense.
- progval 4y agoSome do save them to disk: * https://www.unrealircd.org/docs/Channel_history https://www.unrealircd.org/docs/Channel_history * https://docs.inspircd.org/3/modules/chanhistory/ https://docs.inspircd.org/3/modules/chanhistory/ * https://github.com/ergochat/ergo/blob/master/docs/MANUAL.md#persistent-history-with-mysql https://github.com/ergochat/ergo/blob/master/docs/MANUAL.md#... And they are not niche servers; UnrealIRCd and InspIRCd are the top two in terms of deployments according to https://www.ircstats.org/servers https://www.ircstats.org/servers
- brobinson 4y agoInteresting! +H wasn't a thing when I stopped using IRC/writing bots. InspIRCD (and its amusing default config file) was the daemon I always used. Looks like my client of choice (irssi) never added support for this feature.
- progval 4y agoInspIRCd's +H does not depend on client support; when configured it sends the history on join to all clients (except those which marked themselves as bot with mode +B). What irssi lacked though is the "server-time" extension, which means it would display the wrong timestamp for history messages.