To be fair, the history search is a big selling point, and is fairly difficult to set up. Or perhaps that is and out of the box feature of modern ircd implement

To be fair, the history search is a big selling point, and is fairly difficult to set up. Or perhaps that is and out of the box feature of modern ircd implementations now? It's been a while since I've run an irc server myself. It is certainly true that running your own XMPP server doesn't get you searchable history out of the box.