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Re:Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down by gknoy on Thursday April 16, 2020 @04:35PM (#22893260)
> the only thing that discord really does better is the embeds and voice.

For me, the thing that Discord does really well is having a persistent message history, so I can join a server about a topic, see the pinned posts, read an FAQ channel, and learn a bunch without having to ask a question. That may be improved with IRC now, but at least when I was last using it (wow, 2 decades ago?!) that was a real pain point.

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Re:Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down by myself248 on Thursday April 16, 2020 @07:34PM (#22894675)
I threw TheLounge on a raspi in the basement and I have persistent message history now. Hit it from any browser, and I have a very Discord-like or Slack-like interface.

Been meaning to check out Convos which looks like it solves much the same problems.

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