Comment by progval
12 hours ago
It is the protocol's fault, and there is a solution at the protocol level: https://ircv3.net/specs/extensions/chathistory . So now, you can get messages while offline when using a modern server (eg. https://ergo.chat/) with a modern client (eg. https://codeberg.org/emersion/goguma)
Ergo looks really cool, will have to take a look at that. Thanks for sharing.
Oh thanks for the note about ergo.chat, need to have a play with this!