Ugh. As previously threatened, @slackhq turned off the IRC gateway. (On the upside, I’m spending a lot less time on Slack now.)pic.twitter.com/SNO7Nwmfu2
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Supposedly there's a libpurple plugin bitlbee can use (which would let you use any irc client).