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Any reason to use this over the officially supported IRC/XMPP gateway? https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connect-to-Slack-over-IRC-and-XMPP ht

• grifball 9y ago
  I use it on channels where the admin doesn't enable irc access.
• mateuszf 9y ago
  A better UX I guess
• Mithaldu 9y ago
  Possibly this if it still happens: https://rjbs.manxome.org/rubric/entry/2110 https://rjbs.manxome.org/rubric/entry/2110
  • QasimK 9y ago
    I know someone who uses the gateway but it was a long while before we (I) found out that he didn't receive edits or emoji reactions, which may or may not have caused significant miscommunications.
    • jethro_tell 9y ago
      when did correcting your message become so hard that we needed editS? *edits
      • u801e 9y ago
        I've always used the sed style edits over the IRC gateway. Then someone let me know that they don't work. I always thought that people just read them and parsed the correction manually rather than relying on their client to do it. It's not like I use very complext sed substitutions. s/complext/complex/
• ptman 9y ago
  They seem to be going unmaintained: https://lobste.rs/s/3ymveg/slack_s_xmpp_gateway_is_broken_they_won_t_be https://lobste.rs/s/3ymveg/slack_s_xmpp_gateway_is_broken_th...