and would prefer IRC I too prefer IRC. For those that want the message history and scrollback that IRC lacks they can front-end it with things like TheLounge

and would prefer IRC I too prefer IRC. For those that want the message history and scrollback that IRC lacks they can front-end it with things like TheLounge [1] or Convos. TheLounge uses a Redis cache for messages. And for the Slack-specific features, one could implement them either in IRC modules or IRC bots. UnrealIRCD [2] is very modular. [1] - https://github.com/thelounge https://github.com/thelounge [2] - https://www.unrealircd.org/ https://www.unrealircd.org/