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Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by mixedmath on Thursday March 08, 2018 @06:06AM (#16543641)
IRC is the protocol. There are myriad services which use the IRC protocol. Some of these do include push notifications and offline history, such as irccloud (and others).

The freedom to choose is one of the reasons people wish slack would open source their protocol.

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