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Re:Flickr co-founder launches Slack, a messaging tool design... by kapnobatairza on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @09:46PM (#7229013)
Looks like a more accessible front-end client for IRC - this is awesome. I love using IRC for communication and this just makes it an easier sell on less technical colleagues.

I hope that the Slack service supports using your own IRC client as well. That would be the bees knees.

Re:Flickr co-founder launches Slack, a messaging tool design... by sherrett on Monday February 17, 2014 @04:23PM (#7254582)
You can use IRC with Slack. Once you sign up go to https://my.slack.com/account/gateways