HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 27 days agoThis legit just happened rulelemmy.worldimagemessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up1132arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1128arrow-down1imageThis legit just happened rulelemmy.worldHonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 27 days agomessage-square5fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareA_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·27 days agoI never used IRC so idk much about the clients, but is it possible his client just did that as a packaged feature?
minus-squareDeestan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-226 days agoYeah all clients keep chat logs to some extent to allow you to scroll back etc. Some clients like IRSSI delete logs after 24 days I think, but Hexchat just lets logs grow indefinitely and leave it to you to set up deletion of old logs.
I never used IRC so idk much about the clients, but is it possible his client just did that as a packaged feature?
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Yeah all clients keep chat logs to some extent to allow you to scroll back etc. Some clients like IRSSI delete logs after 24 days I think, but Hexchat just lets logs grow indefinitely and leave it to you to set up deletion of old logs.