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If you are offline on IRC you don't get messages. I use a bouncer etc but that's more than the average person should have to worry about. There is https://www.
by benoliver999 2y ago
If you are offline on IRC you don't get messages.
I use a bouncer etc but that's more than the average person should have to worry about. There is https://www.irccloud.com/ https://www.irccloud.com/ but I fear it's too little too late
Having to create an account on every IRC server is also not great.
I use and love IRC, but I get why centralised services take off. It's just a shame it's a sucky one like discord where everything just goes into a black hole.
- miah_ 2y agoNot getting messages when I'm offline is a feature.
- gravescale 2y agoYou also don't get messages from when you were offline which means if your group spans multiple timezones and you can only be online for a short time, you can completely miss someone. Yes, sure, bouncers, etc, but they were always a gigantic fiddly hassle compared to "log in, here's what you missed".
- benoliver999 2y agoNah it's annoying when someone joins and people have to re-explain what we were just talking about
- skydhash 2y agoLike you do for physical gatherings?
- TeMPOraL 2y agoYes, if it's relevant, e.g. when running an actual community. But physical gatherings have the advantage of not going on continuously 24/7. My experience with Discord, aa well as communities run by IRC earlier, is that if you log out before work and log in after, you'll spend an hour or more just going through the backlog. Chats are for kids, students and unemployed.
- poulpy123 2y agoyou're mistaking messages and notifications.