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> That didn't stop IRC being popular in the 1990s. IRC chats, especially in opensource projects channels, could and would be archived, published over the web a

> That didn't stop IRC being popular in the 1990s. IRC chats, especially in opensource projects channels, could and would be archived, published over the web and indexed by search engines.

paxys 3y ago
So just like Discord then..
- scubbo 3y ago
  No
- pbmonster 3y ago
  I wasn't aware that was being done. Can you show me how to access the archives of the ask-for-help channel on the openllm Discord server? Right now they're discussing "loading models on CPU vs GPU". No matter how explicit I got, google did not find the discussion.
  - paxys 3y ago
    It's up to the server owners/admins to configure archiving, same as IRC.
MatthiasPortzel 3y ago
In my experience, I don’t think I’ve ever seen an IRC log in a search result. #haskell on Libra is publicly logged, but I couldn’t get Google to return a quoted phrase from a message a few weeks ago. Many people on IRC don’t enjoy being in logged channels. I’ve also heard that there are GDPR implications to publicly logging people’s messages without their consent. Discussion of the difficulty and downsides of IRC logging, from a coulple years ago: => https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22892015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22892015 => https://web.archive.org/web/20200417001532/https://echelog.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200417001532/https://echelog.c... The HN blowback to developers choosing to use Discord is just wildly out of proportion.
- darkwater 3y ago
  No, it's not. If you work on an opensource / open development project, it totally makes sense to avoid walled gardens for the community chat/forum (a few years ago it was public Slack instance, nowadays it's Discord servers).