[e12e]

I quickly abandoned the slack "App", but even dedicating a chromium tab to Slack ended up being absurdly heavy. So I've finally migrated to weechat+weechat slack plugin. For a moment I thought I was too late, as slack is killing the xmpp and irc bridges - but the dedicated slack plugin for weechat uses the slack api.

As an added bonus, there are no more animated emojis in my peripheral vision that can be mistaken for an update / alert.

I'm on Linux, but I presume wc works fine on Mac. A bit of a shame that the qt-based client seems abandoned - but it's open source and python so maybe it'll pick up some steam for those that want something a bit less console only, but still not Web app crappy.

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

https://github.com/weechat/weechat

https://github.com/weechat/qweechat

I imagine that both for the console client and the qt one it should be possible to map some of the more common emojis to Unicode (eg :heart:).

[taneq]

I don't have a horse in the slack/xmpp race (although I do hope open standards win out) but if they have a public API which lets you do all that, would it be easy enough to build an XMPP gateway?

[auscompgeek]

IRCCloud have actually written a IRCv3 gateway for Slack (although it's not open... yet): https://twitter.com/IRCCloud/status/971416931373854721