@elmo @mattcen @bilboed @pbone chat log bots are a separate system from the bouncers you are referring to. They log channel chat to a public website instead of directly into the client. These are not set up by users.

Bouncers are different in that they maintain an online presence for you in the channel while you are offline and keep a limited amount of chat history to replay when you return. A bouncer is only complicated to set up if you expect the user to so themselves. The setup can be automated with a very small shell script.

Finally, IRC clients are also no longer complicated to set up and use. Some very friendly web based IRC clients exist exactly for this use case.