You might be interested in weechat-slack. I use it for 90% of my slack needs, I only run the client so I can use the video/phone feature to pair with a coworker

You might be interested in weechat-slack. I use it for 90% of my slack needs, I only run the client so I can use the video/phone feature to pair with a coworker. There is also a slack mode for emacs.. and also ripcord. Slack will never bring back the IRC gateway, so these are our best solutions.