Traditionally, on a desktop computer, you'd only appear on IRC when you were logged into your computer. With phones, this doesn't make sense any more.

I know - I was a longtime IRC user way back when. You're still not quite groking my point. Lemme try and make it a bit more clear:

OP lamented that things like IRC meant that if you weren't always connected, you'd miss messages.

I simply posited, from a philosophical perspective rather than the technical perspective you are focused on, that it's OK for us to not be connected all the time. That not everything we miss is as important as we feel it might be when we think about missing out. That the truly important details will make their way to us one way or another.

No, OP lamented that a "connection interruption" means you miss messages. You were participating in a conversation, but you don't receive the whole conversation because your connection was interrupted. It's much worse on phones, because your connection is interrupted every time you look something up on the web, check the weather, send a message on another app, or anything else.

>No, OP lamented that a "connection interruption" means you "lose" messages. You were participating in a conversation, but you don't receive the whole conversation because your connection was interrupted.

Again, I know this. And please don't mis-quote OP, they clearly said "miss", just like I said.

I've told you twice, now, that you're focusing so much on the technical aspect of a connection that you are completely missing the philosophical idea I have very clearly, also twice, suggested. How IRC works, on mobile and on desktop, is not the point. I don't know how else to explain myself, so I'm gonna move on. Hope you have a pleasant day.

Edit: For posterity's sake, OP's quote at the time of this this post is...

>... if you have a connection interruption you miss messages.