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by app4soft 3133 days ago
> People act like IRC is dead, but it's very much alive in 2017 and severely neglected on the tooling and documentation side.

This[1] XKCD ;-)

[1] https://xkcd.com/1782/

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Wish I could connect to Hipchat over my Weechat client :)
You can use Bitlbee as a gateway between your IRC client and the HipChat server.

See, รจ.g., https://wiki.bitlbee.org/HowtoHipchat

Hipchat can be configured to offer an IRC gateway.
Whoa. I will look into this. Thanks for letting me know! Figured that was only the case with Slack since Slack is IRC-based (IIRC).