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Not too long ago Slack supported IRC gateways, with limited features of course.

• dijit 5y ago
  It was a good way of appeasing people who prefer IRC/XMPP and getting them to accept the walled garden. A good trick because once slack is adopted it's very difficult to get rid of it for most companies.
• loeg 5y ago
  When the IRC gateway stopped working, I found https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack worked pretty well. But I switched employers months ago and no longer have to use Slack, which is even better! (So, I don't know how well it works today.)
  • dijit 5y ago
    You have to install it as an app on slacks side. Some employers don’t allow that.
    • loeg 5y ago
      There used to be two variants that worked; I think the other is "session tokens?"[0] Not sure if that approach still works, or not. [0]: https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack#get-a-session-token https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack#get-a-session-token
    • JeremyNT 5y ago
      It's not IRC, but there exists a working libpurple plugin that you just auth as with your normal user account: https://github.com/dylex/slack-libpurple https://github.com/dylex/slack-libpurple I just use it with Pidgin, but there are curses clients too (I'm aware of bitlbee, there are probably others) if you prefer the IRC-style experience.
• yrro 5y ago
  Embrace, Extend, Extinguish...