Discord, or the Death of Lore

Re:Discord, or the Death of Lore by berkle4455 on Monday March 06, 2023 @10:47PM (#35051298)

IRC was the same way for 15 or so years, all mostly lost.

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Re:Discord, or the Death of Lore by wraptile on Monday March 06, 2023 @10:53PM (#35051344)

IRC used to be indexed by Google and such though. Also because irc clients didn't have rich media support a lot of knowledge would make it outside of IRC like code snippets or microblogs that would eventually get indexed.

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Re:Discord, or the Death of Lore by theshrike79 on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @03:14AM (#35052896)

Google didn't "Index IRC". Source: have been on IRC before Google was a thing.

What Google indexed was people's logger bots putting channel logs on the world wide web.

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Re:Discord, or the Death of Lore by wraptile on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @11:03PM (#35065088)

Many channels had official logs

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