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🌌🐈🐉@kda5/3/2023, 9:41 PM

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Tamber @tamber5/3/2023, 9:36 PM

It scares me a little that so much of my life is now in a platform that has no log facility. That such a big chunk of my life is in a sealed box that could self-destruct at any time and leave me with only incredibly hazy and fading memories of the good (and bad) times I had with people.

I have conversation logs all the way back to 2009, from MSN, from Y!IM, from IRC... the ghosts of people who are no longer with me, but who I can relive those conversations with to keep them alive for a brief precious moment once more.

And yet, Discord? That could all be gone in the wind tomorrow, because I sure as hell don't know of a way to log to file, or even get an archive of all the places I'm in (nevermind the places I've been) And frankly, I can't even remember five minutes ago if I don't have backscroll or a log to refer to....

(Trying to figure out who was fronting, at any point in backscroll, is a goddamn mess that it never used to be back on IRC...)

#grumbling #discord

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Brett @bck3565/3/2023, 10:21 PM

Wow you're right I have IRC logs from the late 2000s and early 2010s I could look at if I wanted to. I've never actually felt the need to but this post really pointed out the value they have that hasn't been available since I got dragged to Discord in 2015.

Thanks for reminding me of that.

Tamber @tamber5/3/2023, 10:34 PM

Yeah, I don't often go back through 'em, but I can if I want, and that's surprisingly important to me! I lost a big chunk of 'em to a hard-drive failure in mid-2009, and it's like there's a hole in my memory...