That's fair. Async communication is not its forte. There are definitely times I wish I could communicate with someone that way. Some channels have a logger and that can be helpful. For the most part, I like the "inbox zero" approach. I can hop on and just start chatting and there's no cultural expectation that I've gone through pages of chat logs from the last time I left.
Re:IRCv3
by Sohcahtoa82 on Thursday May 20, 2021 @02:11PM
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> I know about IRCCloud too, but I don't use chat often enough to justify $5/month (I'm poor, and I just want to chat occasionally).
I'd also add that I've often seen IRCCloud banned from many channels due to extreme amount of spam from their users.
I know about IRC bouncers and all that, but I don't want to set up a server just for that, and managing them is a pain as well. I know about IRCCloud too, but I don't use chat often enough to justify $5/month (I'm poor, and I just want to chat occasionally).
I don't care much for Slack for many reasons, but at least I can actually use it. I find IRC to be functionally unusable because of this.
From a quick glance, it looks IRCv3 solves this with the chathistory extension/specification.[1] But AFAIK most (no?) servers implement this (yet) and the specification isn't finished either.
https://ircv3.net/specs/extensions/chathistory