[rspeer]

And other platforms solve this problem by having history as a built-in feature, which apparently IRC can never get due to inertia.

[kqr]

IRC is not a service. It's a protocol. There are services built on IRC mentioned in this thread which have history as a built-in feature.

[rspeer]

And yet every thread about Slack (or Discord or Gitter or whatever) is full of people saying "why not just use IRC"?, as if IRC could replace a complete service.