And yet, this is what you can get today with several IRC clients already: https://twitter.com/irccloud/status/971416931373854721?s=21 https://twitter.com/ircclo

And yet, this is what you can get today with several IRC clients already: https://twitter.com/irccloud/status/971416931373854721?s=21 https://twitter.com/irccloud/status/971416931373854721?s=21 IRCCloud is using only standard IRC features to implement their Slack gateway that offers all features of slack - including reactions and threads. Federated protocols can move extremely quickly, I've seen that myself recently.