ok, then how about at the very least an IRC bot that sends you a recent history when you connect, and that lets you search the logs?
I presume such a bot must exist? Wout. On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 1:32 PM Jonn Mostovoy <j...@memorici.de> wrote: > Dear Wout, > > you can't grep discord. Search there is atrocious. > Slack, on the other hand has an amazing full text search engine, which is > a huge part in its success. > However, as search over slack has some heuristics, when I need plain dumb > (or pretty elaborate) grep, I can't run it over history of Slack. > > Picking the tool is about engineering tradeoffs. Right now, IRC is optimal > given optimization parameters, starting from not sharding the community, > going through network resilience and system's fault tolerance, ending with > the degree of democracy IRC provides. > On Mar 8, 2016 7:30 AM, "Wout Mertens" <wout.mert...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> After having used Slack and Discord for a while, I can tell you that >> having the recent chat log available with a quick scroll up is very handy. >> Conversations can continue over a longer period of time. >> >> With IRC, you have to open your client, fire off your question a few >> times and hope that someone will know the answer eventually. I can't have >> IRC open at work all day. >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 12:55 AM Profpatsch <m...@profpatsch.de> wrote: >> >>> On 16-03-01 11:46pm, Teo Klestrup Röijezon wrote: >>> > Plain IRC sucks. >>> >>> It’s true, but it f* works. >>> >>> Especially for developers, devs who can’t configure an IRC client? >>> Are those people devs? >>> >>> But I know the pain. >>> >>> Hm, we even use IRC as main communication tool in our Hackerspace, >>> and so far even non-tech people managed to get a basic setup running. >>> Maybe no bouncer, but that’s not required strictly speaking. >>> >>> -- >>> Proudly written in Mutt with Vim on NixOS. >>> Q: Why is this email five sentences or less? >>> A: http://five.sentenc.es >>> May take up to five days to read your message. If it’s urgent, call me. >>> >> -- >> >> Wout. >> (typed on mobile, excuse terseness) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> nix-dev mailing list >> nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl >> http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >> >> -- Wout. (typed on mobile, excuse terseness)
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