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Re:OpenLLM by darkwater on Monday June 19, 2023 @08:43AM (#36390422)
> That didn't stop IRC being popular in the 1990s.

IRC chats, especially in opensource projects channels, could and would be archived, published over the web and indexed by search engines.

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Re:OpenLLM by paxys on Monday June 19, 2023 @08:44AM (#36390439)
So just like Discord then..
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Re:OpenLLM by scubbo on Monday June 19, 2023 @10:33AM (#36391491)
No
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Re:OpenLLM by pbmonster on Monday June 19, 2023 @10:46AM (#36391666)
I wasn't aware that was being done.

Can you show me how to access the archives of the ask-for-help channel on the openllm Discord server? Right now they're discussing "loading models on CPU vs GPU". No matter how explicit I got, google did not find the discussion.

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Re:OpenLLM by paxys on Monday June 19, 2023 @11:11AM (#36391958)
It's up to the server owners/admins to configure archiving, same as IRC.
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Re:OpenLLM by MatthiasPortzel on Monday June 19, 2023 @12:21PM (#36392861)
In my experience, I don’t think I’ve ever seen an IRC log in a search result.

#haskell on Libra is publicly logged, but I couldn’t get Google to return a quoted phrase from a message a few weeks ago.

Many people on IRC don’t enjoy being in logged channels. I’ve also heard that there are GDPR implications to publicly logging people’s messages without their consent.

Discussion of the difficulty and downsides of IRC logging, from a coulple years ago:

=> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22892015

=> https://web.archive.org/web/20200417001532/https://echelog.c...

The HN blowback to developers choosing to use Discord is just wildly out of proportion.

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Re:OpenLLM by darkwater on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @02:57AM (#36400611)
No, it's not. If you work on an opensource / open development project, it totally makes sense to avoid walled gardens for the community chat/forum (a few years ago it was public Slack instance, nowadays it's Discord servers).
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