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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by StudentStuff on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @05:52PM (#16540738)
Things like IRC don't support embedded images, so lets build our own protocol with blackjack and everything else! Oh wait, its a slow morass :(
Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by dijit on Thursday March 08, 2018 @03:18AM (#16543091)
Except; with IRC it's up to your client to do anything it wants.

Want inline pictures? Well, Textual has had that for a long time, irccloud's webUI too.