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For me, I just have to remember there is a huge gap on this thing, it's really trying to cater to a lot of different constituents, and when you look at it that way, it's winning. I mean sure, they add some shit and I'm just like.. wtf is this animated emoji reply shit that is taking up my screen and bothering me. But, if it look at it for what I suppose it's supposed to be... fun... well, it's pretty fun.. so let them have fun I suppose. :) :)

Just curious, which alternative do you like more with free message retention. I think free message retention is absolutely needed for open source projects.

We used to connect a logging bot to our IRC channels back in the day :)

...i do that with slack. :D

you irc to slack, or you use a bouncer with slack, or both?

I just wrote a script that i captures the network requests as i scroll through, cleans it, outputs to a nice file that i can then insert into a database.

cool, that's a clever idea. :)

Agreed, granted I'm over 50 so get off my lawn but "busy-dizzy" is how the Discord UI makes me feel.