Re:Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?
by lifthrasiir on Friday June 07, 2019 @03:27AM
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Most IRC clients allow you to quickly switch to frequently viewed channels via shortcuts (even irssi, a terminal client, does that). With Slack it is a clunky Ctrl-K and a first few letters of the channel name that may or may not lead to what you really want.
Yep, must say I miss the Escape-sequences for changing channels. Works fine via wee-slack though but unfortunately you need permission to join via wee-slack since it requires an API-key.
Re:Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?
by madeofpalk on Friday June 07, 2019 @04:25AM
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?? Slack has shortcuts for both of these. Cmd+0,1,2,3 to switch between orgs, opt+up/down to switch between channels. And also, as you mentioned, cmd+k for search-switching
Re:Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?
by lifthrasiir on Friday June 07, 2019 @10:59AM
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I know Slack does support shortcuts, but search-switching is inferior to a direct shortcut. Let's say that you frequently use channels a and b in the org A and a channel c in the org B (this mode of operation is common). How do you get to a, b or c without even looking at the screen?
Some would consider that a feature, you only see the activity of the channels you've joined (but you can search for others at any time and you can preview messages in them before joining).
switching the channels is slow & non-intuitive
isn't "/join #channel-name" the same way you switch channels in IRC?