[fluffything]

> If you're "searching" the logs as part of your normal IRC routine, you're using IRC incorrectly.

I fully agree, nobody wants to search IRC logs for technical information about a project.

If the only documentation about a technical decision in an open source project is an IRC discussion, then that project is just doing open source wrong. Those logs are at best hard to search for, and more often than not, non-existent.

When we have "online" meetings (IRC / Discord / Zulip / Matrix / Zoom / ...) to discuss technical issues in our open source projects, we always publish a full summary of the meetings so that everyone who wasn't there can read them and follow the rationale, or raise issues with it.