@yogidevbear: the slack API has a way to get the up to 1000 last comments, but you need an authentication token https://api.slack.com/methods/channels.history

@ljosa: It's a pity. There's a bot in one of my other slack groups that (I'm guessing) utilises the API to do this type of stuff for you (https://github.com/ryanguill/watney). So you can type things like !tail 20 and it'll fetch the last twenty comments and pop them into a gist and output the gist url for you. You can also do things like give karma to people when they help solve issues you might be stuck on 😄