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Slack already has the ability to do the opposite: https://slack.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connecting-to-Slack-over-IRC-and-XMPP https://slack.zend

Slack already has the ability to do the opposite: https://slack.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connecting-to-Slack-over-IRC-and-XMPP https://slack.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connec... There's some startups like https://grove.io/ https://grove.io/ that do it. I think the biggest problem is the people who use IRC aren't the type of people to pay. Additionally, walled gardens are pretty nice when it comes to making a cohesive experience. As soon as you build on top of something else, you're beholden to its limitations.

rtpg 11y ago
Isn't there a more fundamental issue that IRC does not map to Slack? Mentioned over and over, but Slack backlog is crazy useful, and I don't think IRC the protocol has any mapping for that. There's also things like permission sets that don't map 1:1 (but you can find workarounds, of course) There's also the whole way notifications work... basically Slack and IRC are only the same (or even similar) on an extremely superficial level.
- calpaterson 11y ago
  IRC with a bouncer maps to it