@[email protected] to [email protected] • 2 years agoWhy is IRC still used?message-square15fedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down10file-text
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•edit-22 years agoWhy is seeing the history so important? If you mean backlog from when you were away then you can solve that with a bouncer. Anyone can host an IRC server. Discord is not a charity, you don’t get all that cotton candy for free.
minus-squarepoVoqlinkfedilink1•2 years agoMatrix is slow, buggy and the moderation tools don’t work well with guest accounts. IRC is “battle-tested” for exactly these things for as long as the internet exists pretty much.
Why is seeing the history so important?
If you mean backlog from when you were away then you can solve that with a bouncer.
Anyone can host an IRC server. Discord is not a charity, you don’t get all that cotton candy for free.
There is matrix
Matrix is slow, buggy and the moderation tools don’t work well with guest accounts.
IRC is “battle-tested” for exactly these things for as long as the internet exists pretty much.