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0 pointsphicoh6y ago0 comments

And then lots of people have bouncers to be there 24x7.

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Personally, the main benefit of a bouncer is not missing highlights when someone wants to turn your attention to something interesting, reading up the logs for even a single channel isn't a reasonable way to invest your time.

sanderjd6y ago

It's not about scrolling up, it's about search. Which is another thing that IRC, even with a bouncer, is not good at.

echelon6y ago

> reading up the logs for even a single channel isn't a reasonable way to invest your time.

I'm beginning to feel this way about everything. Reddit, Twitter, social media in general...

The hoarder mentality likes for this stuff to still exist in the hopes it might one day be useful. In fact, it has very little value.

Snapchat got it right when they started with ephemerality.

nxrabl6y ago

Which makes for an interesting dynamic, since it's the people with the most experience for whom the chat is least ephemeral, and the people who would benefit most from having scrollback who are least likely to have it set up properly.

phicohOP6y ago

One of the nice things about the IRC bridges between Matrix and big IRC networks is that you can experience IRC from the comfort of Matrix.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse