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by rkeene2 2915 days ago
Native emoji support, pretty front-ends, and clear product direction are possibilities on-top of IRC (or XMPP) since their absence isn't a core part of IRC (or XMPP) -- it's just not a good way to make a profit it if you don't lock down the network and act as the gatekeeper of the interface. Slack's API is fairly open though and it's not a huge hurdle to interact with it. I built an IRC<->Slack gateway that bridges the differences fairly well ( https://slack.tcl-lang.org/ , you know, if Slack were working).