> I now use the same XMPP client to talk to Slack that I previously used with our own local chatrooms hosted on ejabberd. Have you had issues with your client

> I now use the same XMPP client to talk to Slack that I previously used with our own local chatrooms hosted on ejabberd. Have you had issues with your client taking a long time to negotiate a connection over Slack's XMPP gateway? I had that issue with Thunderbird's chat client and ended up having to switch over to the IRC gateway instead.