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by donio 546 days ago
> Didn't know there was such a thing as "always-on" on IRC tho.

It's a server feature and might be unique to Ergo. It's a per-user setting (with a global default) and when it's on the user always appears to be online so you can type at them any time like you would with other DM systems. The v3 chathistory support ensures that they don't miss messages. For clients that don't support chathistory the server can replay any unseen messages.

It's a lot like what bouncers provide but integrated and very easy to enable for everybody so no extra steps required for my users.