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0 pointstribaal10y ago0 comments

Oh, TIL.

So I can point my run-off-the-mill IRC client to a slack server and partake in cat pictures exchanging and almost-NSFW-but-not-quite with my fellow coworkers, yes?

Otherwise whatever it uses inside its walled garden is completely irrelevant I'm afraid.

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detaro10y ago

They have an IRC bridge you can connect your IRC client to. It probably can't do all the things (because IRC has no way of expressing them, and I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't spend too much effort on it), but it works.

wan2310y ago

You actually can use a regular IRC client with Slack. Though obviously anything that isn't supported natively by IRC comes through as a URL or encoded somehow.

https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connectin...

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