> But there are two reasons I didn't go that route: My biggest issue is that Slack doesn't allow non-paying accounts (I forget what they call the tier - "guest

> But there are two reasons I didn't go that route: My biggest issue is that Slack doesn't allow non-paying accounts (I forget what they call the tier - "guest" account or something) to use the IRC gateway. There's one project I'm involved with that moved its support channel from Freenode to Slack. I used to idle in the channel 24/7 thanks to ZNC, and now I have to actually log in through the web interface every time I want to ask a question. It's their loss, too, because I'm also no longer as available to answer other users' questions. If you run a software project, please, please, do not host your support channel on Slack. I don't want to have to request an invitation just to join the channel, and I don't want to have to either download and open the Slack app or use their web interface[0] just to ask a question or answer other people's questions. [0] Their web interface has really terrible performance, and last I checked, their Linux "app" was just a webview around said web interface, with equally terrible performance.