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Re:Slack client for the terminal by rspeer on Thursday March 01, 2018 @04:08PM (#16496357)
And other platforms solve this problem by having history as a built-in feature, which apparently IRC can never get due to inertia.
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Re:Slack client for the terminal by kqr on Thursday March 01, 2018 @04:17PM (#16496431)
IRC is not a service. It's a protocol. There are services built on IRC mentioned in this thread which have history as a built-in feature.
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Re:Slack client for the terminal by rspeer on Thursday March 01, 2018 @08:35PM (#16498147)
And yet every thread about Slack (or Discord or Gitter or whatever) is full of people saying "why not just use IRC"?, as if IRC could replace a complete service.
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