Well no, it doesn't keep a history of chats for once. You don't have a record of conversations if your client wasn't running at that time. There's a few other limitations that I'm not familiar with, that prompted many people and orgs to switch to things like rocket chat or matrix

[–] littleomid@feddit.org 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So instead of keeping a record yourself, you pay someone else/use someone else’s computer to do it for you.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's what bash.org was for.

[–] Rob1992@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Bash. org was a dumb quote archival site.

[–] Rob1992@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

That's why IRC bouncers exist, and then you have some IRC servers getting pissy about running one unless they like you or you're special (staff)