IRC is right now standardizing reactions and threads. As I linked elsewhere in this thread, IRCCloud now runs their own slack gateway for their users, with supp

IRC is right now standardizing reactions and threads. As I linked elsewhere in this thread, IRCCloud now runs their own slack gateway for their users, with support for all of it: https://twitter.com/irccloud/status/971416931373854721?s=21 https://twitter.com/irccloud/status/971416931373854721?s=21 It's absolutely possible to provide all this in open protocols, and even in a reasonable timeframe.