Re:Posting successful SSH logins to Slack
by pavel_lishin on Saturday January 23, 2016 @05:22PM
(#10960398)
I use IRC, but come on. It offers a lot more than IRC right out of the box.
* File uploads
* Embedding portions of links (tweets, images)
* A very good search
* Multi-line posts
* Code-formatting, including multi-line posts, and also snippets.
* A mobile client that alerts you when someone mentions you.
* Scroll-back history when you sign on at any time.
* Syncing between multiple clients.
Yes, you could create a bot or modify an irc server to do this, and then find or write a client that will do all that stuff, and an irc bouncer can fill in for a lot of this.
But Slack does it out of the box. Zero extra work needed.
I like IRC, but if you claim that Slack doesn't offer anything more than IRC, you're either delusional or using an incredibly broad definition of IRC.
* File uploads
* Embedding portions of links (tweets, images)
* A very good search
* Multi-line posts
* Code-formatting, including multi-line posts, and also snippets.
* A mobile client that alerts you when someone mentions you.
* Scroll-back history when you sign on at any time.
* Syncing between multiple clients.
Yes, you could create a bot or modify an irc server to do this, and then find or write a client that will do all that stuff, and an irc bouncer can fill in for a lot of this.
But Slack does it out of the box. Zero extra work needed.
I like IRC, but if you claim that Slack doesn't offer anything more than IRC, you're either delusional or using an incredibly broad definition of IRC.