datitisev Not if you use a bouncer, which most developers in IRC use. Either way, most users who come into a chat aren't likely to search message history. (And a public log can be archived as necessary with a bot - then you get the added benefit of being able to share a link to a specific message!)
jordanjay29 I have, and I'm not a fan of running chromium/web wrappers that eat my RAM (and CPU at times). Nor can I access it via web on mobile (it just loads the minimum-width desktop columns).
I don't understand the aversion to cross-linking chat across multiple platforms (or at least across previously-existing platforms like gitter). Projects like Glowstone and Paper do this.
