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Re:Reclaim the Stack by Kiro on Monday September 09, 2024 @01:08AM (#41485617)
No-one complained when projects had IRC channels/servers, which are even worse since they have no history at all.
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Re:Reclaim the Stack by okasaki on Monday September 09, 2024 @05:52AM (#41486909)
All IRC clients have local plain text logging and putting a .txt on a web server is trivial.
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Re:Reclaim the Stack by Kiro on Monday September 09, 2024 @08:43AM (#41487976)
Local logging doesn't help much for searchability when you're new and it requires you to be online 24/7. Anyway, that's beside the point. Even if IRC had built-in server history it still has the same problems but I never saw people being outraged about it.
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Re:Reclaim the Stack by Gormo on Monday September 09, 2024 @10:38AM (#41488955)
Good projects still do rely on IRC -- Libera.chat is full of proper channels -- and logging bots are ubiquitous.
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Re:Reclaim the Stack by Kiro on Monday September 09, 2024 @12:44PM (#41490391)
And you never hear anyone complaining about those. "Locking knowledge" was never an argument before and it's not now.
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Re:Reclaim the Stack by callalex on Monday September 09, 2024 @05:28PM (#41494147)
At least people treat IRC as ephemeral and place all documentation elsewhere. People are writing whole wikis inside of Discord that are not publicly searchable.
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