On Monday, 22 May 2023 00:26:09 CEST argonel wrote: Hi, > I would argue that the low usage is in part due to lack of awareness. > It has a one-line mention on the "Internet Relay Chat" community wiki > page (which wasn't added until 2019) that doesn't even explain the > benefits of using it. > > IRC in combination with the BNC is much more suited to intermittent > usage than Matrix is, which currently obligates the user to "be > active" every 30 days, or risk (permanently!) losing access to the > entirety of the history of all of their joined channels (even the > parts for which they were present). The BNC happily buffers the text > until your client is able to reconnect. As an example, this allowed me > to read discussions that happened while I endured an extended power > outage, even when Matrix had decided that I was idle for "too long".
The requirement of not being inactive for 30 days is not due to Matrix. Matrix doesn't care about your inactivity, but his is actually a Libera.chat policy, which was a requirement for libera.chat authorizing the bridging. This is the same issue with the fact that when you join a room, you can't see the chat history from before you joined the room. I understand that this requirement is due to some technical issues, as IRC doesn't support having so many connections open at the same time but it's a bit wrong to blame Matrix for that. I do wonder why BNC is not affected by this policy, but I suppose it's because there are way less users using IRC. Cheers, Carl
