I’m talking about GNU here.

I just can’t seem to figure out on how to use either of them to communicate. IRCs don’t save older messages, but instead logs them. And I guess for the same reason, it is impossible to discuss anything in depth.

Mailing list is really hard to read, as it is nowhere similar to forum or tree-style comments. I can’t figure out what mailing list to message to.

  • wyclif@lemmy.ml
    2·
    9 months ago

    I use irssi. When you start it up, if you run:

    /lastlog -hilight

    It will list the log of messages you received while you were logged out.

    • mbw@feddit.de
      1·
      8 months ago

      No? This will search the logfiles (if irssi is configured to create those at all) for a pattern. This still requires that you had to have an irssi client running and connected to the server/channel in question, during the time the user is afk. Which is why others recommend e.g. setting up ZNC.