Click "Load more backlog" and you will see the shared chat history. You can also download your chat history as a ZIP file, I think.
And what is the point of having to download and extract logs from a zip file? That's not good UX. My friends and I are completely baffled that this MOST basic feature doesn't work as expect.
Here is how it should work: I log in at home and I get full history of the channel (or as much as they keep, but at least last 24 hours), so I can see what's been going on. Then I leave for work (I leave my client open at home) and during commute I might popin and see what is going on, again I should get full history regardless what has happened while I was gone (or if nothing had happened). Then I get to work and again I should get full history of all messages and all these clients should get updated history whenever there are new messages.
I use IRCCloud every day and this is exactly how it works. History is shared between devices and is still collected even when you're not online. I'm not sure why it wasn't working for you.
But we'll see, I'm willing to give it the 7 day trial and see if it's workable. There also seems to be python lib for it, so if the chat history works itself out I could write my own cli/gui solution and get rid of the channel list/tree thing
That is not the case.there is something funny going on with his/her client. I use ircloud for past 6 month and it is excellent.I always use it from home which is basically a one ip address shared between 4,5 device.and I always can load my message from different devices.
So far this product doesn't really provide me any value over free solutions on the go and at home/work changing between machines just ssh-ing to my ircbox and attaching to irssi session seems more reliable.