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No-one complained when projects had IRC channels/servers, which are even worse since they have no history at all.
by Kiro 2y ago
No-one complained when projects had IRC channels/servers, which are even worse since they have no history at all.
- okasaki 2y agoAll IRC clients have local plain text logging and putting a .txt on a web server is trivial.
- Kiro 2y agoLocal logging doesn't help much for searchability when you're new and it requires you to be online 24/7. Anyway, that's beside the point. Even if IRC had built-in server history it still has the same problems but I never saw people being outraged about it.
- Gormo 2y agoGood projects still do rely on IRC -- Libera.chat is full of proper channels -- and logging bots are ubiquitous.
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- Kiro 2y agoAnd you never hear anyone complaining about those. "Locking knowledge" was never an argument before and it's not now.
- callalex 2y agoAt least people treat IRC as ephemeral and place all documentation elsewhere. People are writing whole wikis inside of Discord that are not publicly searchable.