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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by apetresc on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @01:57PM (#14090665)
> I personally don't care if Electron goes away or what, but to the extent that I'm forced to run Slack by my cow-orkers' choices, it sure would be nice if it were less of a bucket of ass.

For what it's worth, since you seem to like IRC clients so much better, Slack has a built-in IRC bridge: https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connect-t.... It works just fine, in my experience.

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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by mikejmoffitt on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @03:02PM (#14091290)
From experience, using the bridge means pinging the admin on slack about it, and convincing them that it's even worth doing, and then being stuck in "The IRC Room", instead of the others rooms in which people are actually communicating.
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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by abalashov on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @09:42PM (#14094101)
Allow me to humbly suggest:

https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack

I use it extensively for everyday Slack, where I don't care much about inline media and inline formatting. And for a text client, weechat + this plugin handle it pretty gracefully.

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