I start discord, I can see all the messages that happened while I wasn't
connected, and I can scroll back years and see the messages. IRC never had
that except through bots. Maybe some server versions had custom extensions
to allow it, but none I ever saw (although I have managed to stay away from
irc for over a decade now after spending way too much time on it) And
discord has bots too although quite how capable they are I am not sure
since I haven't looked at them much but they are there.
On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 at 09:45, Dan Gahlinger <dgahling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
and btw I'm in a bunch of discord "channels", none of them have any
history...
On Tue., Mar. 17, 2020, 9:41 a.m. Dan Gahlinger, <dgahling@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
incorrect.
you can do it without bots.
again, it's easy to setup.
On Tue., Mar. 17, 2020, 9:39 a.m. Lennart Sorensen, <lsorense@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Exactly. Hence why logging bots were commonly used on some channels.
IRC does not have history that you can access from a normal client on a
normal server. You only see what happened since you connected.
On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 at 09:28, Adrian Petrescu <adrian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 03/17 08:58AM, Dan Gahlinger wrote:
irc has history dudeHuh? Unless you’re connecting through a bouncer such as ZNC, it does
not.
Unless you’re referring to some draft IRCv3 spec that no major network
implements?
– Adrian
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Len
