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Re:Mozilla is giving up on their IRC server by josteink on Saturday April 27, 2019 @09:56AM (#19765533)
> IRC isn't persistent (i.e. you can't read messages delivered while you were offline)

It’s chat, not email.

That’s a natural feature of the medium.

In the age of Google, why on earth would you want to record everything?

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Re:Mozilla is giving up on their IRC server by intertextuality on Saturday April 27, 2019 @11:12AM (#19765908)
At least for me, I participate in a lot of programming channels. I've saved a lot of stuff for later, that would otherwise be a pain to ask someone to answer it again. I log basically all of my irc chats because

1. storage is cheap 2. you never know when something could be useful later

Let's not pretend individual nerds in IRC chat recording history is anything remotely close to what google is doing.

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Re:Mozilla is giving up on their IRC server by josteink on Saturday April 27, 2019 @12:13PM (#19766224)
Thats individual logical logging.

Making persistent server-logs and putting them on the web, makes them Google-creepy by default.

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Re:Mozilla is giving up on their IRC server by andai on Saturday April 27, 2019 @12:41PM (#19766349)
Makes me wonder if googlebot knows how to login to Discord.
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