Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down
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Re: Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down
#2So, I'm too young to have ever used IRC. This must be a biggish deal to make it #2 on HN homepage. But can someone put this in perspective of how big a deal this is?
On a scale of 'Rando County Legacy ISP-provided email service' to 'Gmail' is shutting down, where does this lie?
IRC is not email, etc. but again, never seen this community.
Re: Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down
#3So, I'm too young to have ever used IRC. This must be a biggish deal to make it #2 on HN homepage. But can someone put this in perspective of how big a deal this is? On a scale of 'Rando County Legacy ISP-provided email service' to 'Gmail' is shutting down, where does this lie? IRC is not email, etc. but again, never seen this community.
Having used IRC, not that big of a deal in my opinion. Most channels run their own log archives, and you always have your own.
Re: Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down
#4So, I'm too young to have ever used IRC. This must be a biggish deal to make it #2 on HN homepage. But can someone put this in perspective of how big a deal this is? On a scale of 'Rando County Legacy ISP-provided email service' to 'Gmail' is shutting down, where does this lie? IRC is not email, etc. but again, never seen this community.
IRC was the chat server. Freenode was THE OSS irc chat server.
There wasn't any other game in town that could scale well enough that was free.
Re: Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down
#5So, I'm too young to have ever used IRC. This must be a biggish deal to make it #2 on HN homepage. But can someone put this in perspective of how big a deal this is? On a scale of 'Rando County Legacy ISP-provided email service' to 'Gmail' is shutting down, where does this lie? IRC is not email, etc. but again, never seen this community.
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Re: Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down
#6So, I'm too young to have ever used IRC. This must be a biggish deal to make it #2 on HN homepage. But can someone put this in perspective of how big a deal this is? On a scale of 'Rando County Legacy ISP-provided email service' to 'Gmail' is shutting down, where does this lie? IRC is not email, etc. but again, never seen this community.
unofficial irc logging services are kinda like the "I don't want to pay anyone, but I want to freeload off someone's netflix account" of the irc age.
If the material was important to someone, they would already be connected with a bouncer or logger of some kind. For people who can't run bouncers, etc, this is a good service, but again - if you really thought it was vital to your work and/or personal life, you would have spent some money to either purchase an irc service (like irccloud, etc) or pay someone to run a proper logging service.
The historical aspects are not nearly as dire in my opinion, - all someone has to do is to get a copy of the archive from this person (who doesn't seem opposed to this idea) - and host it somewhere. Again, the problem is costs - if someone deamed it important enough, they will mirror it.
In this age, probably someone like the Internet Archive since no one will pay for the maintenance (legally, technically, and otherwise).
Re: Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down
#7So, I'm too young to have ever used IRC. This must be a biggish deal to make it #2 on HN homepage. But can someone put this in perspective of how big a deal this is? On a scale of 'Rando County Legacy ISP-provided email service' to 'Gmail' is shutting down, where does this lie? IRC is not email, etc. but again, never seen this community.
IRC was the chat server. Freenode was THE OSS irc chat server. There wasn't any other game in town that could scale well enough that was free.
yah, but this particular service, which is a logging server run by an individual, isn't really all that significant in the grand scheme of things.
Re: Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down
#8So, I'm too young to have ever used IRC. This must be a biggish deal to make it #2 on HN homepage. But can someone put this in perspective of how big a deal this is? On a scale of 'Rando County Legacy ISP-provided email service' to 'Gmail' is shutting down, where does this lie? IRC is not email, etc. but again, never seen this community.
IRC was the chat server. Freenode was THE OSS irc chat server. There wasn't any other game in town that could scale well enough that was free.
If Freenode was shutting down it would be closer to "gmail is shutting down" IMHO.
Re: Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down
#9I wonder if archive.org would be interested...
Re: Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down
#10Oh