Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways
by iforgotpassword on Friday March 09, 2018 @02:26AM
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You are trying to try people what they should prefer. This is about openness and choice. If I've been using screen and irssi/xchat/etc for decades I don't want to learn anything new. I don't want a huge app shoved down my throat that's not nearly as customizable and integratable into my workflow as all those tools I already know. The slack app is just a horrible tool designed to get into your way and interrupt your work. Thank god we didn't jump that shittrain on my current job.
Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways
by linedash on Thursday March 08, 2018 @08:16AM
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Not to mention the webhooks. It's trivial to implement pushing data into slack.
They even give you a hello world sample curl when you opt to add the webhook. At the simplest you can just replace the hello world text and bam -- you're sending to slack. Just takes a very simple json input.
* User authentication
* Support for multiple concurrent logins by one user
* Persistent, searchable history
* (Ad-free) file and image sharing built in
* Simple integrations, like webhooks, built in.
In other words, Slack is like IRC+NickServ+Irssi+Screen+Imgur, except easier to use, in the sense that you don't need to know key combos like Ctrl+A+D or Ctrl+Alt+2, you don't have to figure out how to send such combos from your phone's terminal emulator, and you don't need access to an always-on server to run your screen session.
Of course, it's not all good; Slack has a bunch of opinionated design choices, like a channel it's impossible to leave, no ability to block users, no off-the-record option, and suchlike.