THE video above shows a very little but useful feature, implemented owing to popular demand. People who don't lurk in IRC or lose the connection (dropping whilst online in IRC) can catch up almost in real time, both over the Web and over Gemini. By the very nature of IRC, dropping out of a channel means not seeing (no relay/catchup) messages posted while one was offline. There are workarounds (services) that mitigate such issues, but they tend to involve subscription and/or spying.

"By the very nature of IRC, dropping out of a channel means not seeing (no relay/catchup) messages posted while one was offline."We've meanwhile noticed that after several days of downtime Freenode is working to restore its KiwiIRC instance and we've added Mibbit (privacy risk) as an alternative to KiwiIRC. We've done some more tinkering to further improve the IRC experience in the site and enhance the Gemini side of it. Shown below is the revised page for gemini:// statistics. ⬆

Each month we've seen an increase in the amount of traffic we get over gemini://