[sturmeh]

In my opinion IRC is superior to Slack, so I really don't understand this argument. (You're assuming Slack is an improvement on IRC, when in fact it's a completely different platform.)

[abalashov]

Then I'm sure you can appreciate the irony that I use Slack via:

https://github.com/rawdigits/wee-slack

It's more featureful than the native Slack IRC gateway.