Telegram "treated differently" because it is different. IRC does not have an inherent message permanency, but we apply one within MetaBrainz in the form of logs at https://chatlogs.metabrainz.org/ - which gives users the option of using [off] to prevent someone random a year from now to search through the log and find a message they do not want shown.
2021-08-12 22451, 2021
Freso
IRCCloud logs per-user and so do whatever personal logs people may have. If I join #foobarxyz now on IRC, I don’t get access to other IRCCloud users’ logs of the channel.
2021-08-12 22446, 2021
Freso
If I join a Telegram group though, I may have access to logs going back to when the group was created.
2021-08-12 22423, 2021
CatQuest
yes. that's exactly it
2021-08-12 22436, 2021
CatQuest
but
2021-08-12 22436, 2021
CatQuest
[22:32] <tg-musicbrainz> <jwflory> CatQuest: The feature was implemented upstream actually
2021-08-12 22450, 2021
CatQuest
(the [off]ing)
2021-08-12 22458, 2021
CatQuest
(apparently?)
2021-08-12 22455, 2021
CatQuest
and like I said. since the talking is done wia the bridgebot, bridge bot can delete any message that starts with [off] after a set time (say a minute or 30 seconds)
2021-08-12 22411, 2021
CatQuest
you cna delete messages on telegram
2021-08-12 22452, 2021
CatQuest
but if it's fixed upstream, then all we need to do is invoke it here and then #musicbrainz-telegram cna jsut be #musicbrainz
2021-08-12 22432, 2021
Freso
It has to be implemented here first and then we can talk about the next step. :)
