Slack has made using their API much trickier over time: getting a token to post these days (officially) is under the control of the server admin (as one needs t

Slack has made using their API much trickier over time: getting a token to post these days (officially) is under the control of the server admin (as one needs to add a "slack app" to get one). One can extract a token and some cookies from a web browser slack session still, but it's not as clean as it used to be (where one could just generate account associated tokens that didn't randomly expire). In other words: - to use the slack APIs, you probably need company level buy in _before_ any code is written against the API from IT folks - in contrast, with IRC one could just try something out and at some point in the future _maybe_ create a seperate IRC account for it, if your IRC server even has logins enabled. If it doesn't, which when I worked for IBM was the case, one can just pick a new username for the IRC bot.