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Is it just me, or do other people find IRC logs incredibly hard to follow? Even IRC chats in real time are hard to follow.

You have N people, with up to N*(N-1)/2 different interactions/conversations, all serialized onto a single interleaved display. I can't imagine how people find it useful.

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I think it's fine if the client assigns different colors to each nickname, like Weechat does. But bare text can be hard to follow, yes.

I've ran the log through irclog2html and uploaded the result here, maybe it can help: http://pastehtml.com/view/b9p8ofymh.html

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