[prmoustache]

The purpose has slided.

IRC was an instant/synchronous chat protocol. We had newsgroup/web forums for unsynychronous chat/dicussions.

The likes of slack, and later discord, had the idea of merging sync and unsync discussion to provide both.

In the end slack/discord/teams ended up being jack of all trades/master of none.

Yes the backlog is saved automatically but for most of them the search is slow and borderline unusable and it ends up being much more difficult to search for information than using google with the site:yourwebforum.example.org option.