looks like the guy who took over freenode is doing his best to create a walled garden. Also plenty of people still on IRC, including me :) FWIW, I like irssi

looks like the guy who took over freenode is doing his best to create a walled garden. Also plenty of people still on IRC, including me :) FWIW, I like irssi much better than the slack front end, but as font ends go, slack's is not terrible.