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Re:Slack Is Raising $250M from SoftBank, Others by tomjakubowski on Thursday July 27, 2017 @01:07AM (#14862849)
> Or I suppose I wish Slack would make its ecosystem available via IRC.

Slack has an IRC gateway. https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connect-t...

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Re:Slack Is Raising $250M from SoftBank, Others by scaryclam on Thursday July 27, 2017 @03:48AM (#14863401)
We tried using that, and quite frankly it's horrible.
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Re:Slack Is Raising $250M from SoftBank, Others by lmm on Thursday July 27, 2017 @05:18AM (#14863707)
Its horribleness is the horribleness of IRC itself though. The gateway preserves all the parts of Slack that you can do on IRC - it just turns out that's not actually so much of it.
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Re:Slack Is Raising $250M from SoftBank, Others by avinassh on Thursday July 27, 2017 @05:52AM (#14863847)
Can you elaborate why/whats horrible?
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