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by Diti 2473 days ago
RIP IRC, which had the advantage of offering people the opportunity to use any client they like.
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xfitm3 2473 days ago
Yep - I desperately want /ignore back. Lots of annoying bots.
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barnabee 2473 days ago
It sucks that the protocol is proprietary but there seems to be a reasonably healthy ecosystem of 3rd party Slack clients so that advantage isn’t totally gone.

I find the wee-slack plugin for the WeeChat IRC client to be pretty good (https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack)

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lnx01 2473 days ago
Pidgin with libpurple/libslack is also great. A bit quirky, but it works.
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