4 pane comic of dolan on the left and spooderman on the right
pane 1 (dolan): cum join opensurce cummunity!
pane 2 (spooderman): shure! how joyn?
pane 3 (dolan): Here discord! (with discord logo)
pane 4 (spooderman with tears in eyes): y u do dis?
IRC allows archiving
How so?
You can easily log and archive things that happen on an open protocol, not so much a proprietary one like discord.
Is it possible to have a server/channel bot publicly export channel activity?
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Publicly_logged_channels https://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.
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
You can't search an IRC channel for previous conversations, though? Isn't that what we were talking about?
Nobody considers IRC to be a substitute for documentation.