IRC archivers just idle on a server and record anything that comes by. You can do that with Discord. Matter of fact, I keep regular archive backups of a server we have that’s full of news
Comment on FLOSS communities right now
T156@lemmy.world 1 year agoYou can easily log and archive things that happen on an open protocol, not so much a proprietary one like discord.
AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
You can’t search an IRC channel for previous conversations, though? Isn’t that what we were talking about?
oshu@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nobody considers IRC to be a substitute for documentation.
xenoclast@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Is it possible to have a server/channel bot publicly export channel activity?
kilgore_trout@feddit.it 1 year ago
meta.wikimedia.org/…/Publicly_logged_channels www.w3.org/2002/03/RRSAgent
Wikimedia and W3C log their chats with bots developed by themselves. I admit though that I am not expert in this topic, but I know that LiberaChat’s policies forbid logging.