I’ll mention http://gitter.im has an IRC gateway with a retro-styled web page. https://irc.gitter.im

The http://gitter.im free plan includes full archives with search, too.

@gonewest818 We've had Gitter rooms for Clojure for years and they get next to no traffic.

We encouraged folks to try Gitter and they just didn't like it enough to want to switch...

I know.

Presumably those who prefer IRC are going to switch somewhere, that’s all I’m saying.

If they prefer IRC, presumably they'll just keep on using IRC... @gonewest818

People prefer what they prefer. That's how communities grow. You can't force people to use something they don't like. The IRC fans have remained in IRC, using a bridge to Slack when/if they feel Slack adds value -- but many of the IRC regulars haven't bothered with Slack at all.

Yeah, I think IRC and slack are mostly disjoint sets. I think the IRC bridge was mostly useful for archiving.

wee-slack extends the IRC client weechat to use slack's API. That might be a desirable tool for most.

I took a look at weechat and it seems to be a very primitive terminal UI -- but I guess the IRC crowd would be OK with that. Are there any decent macOS / Windows GUI clients for weechat?

@seancorfield weechat is a terminal UI only.

Hmm, did my message not send from earlier, ugh

There's the IRCCloud IRC Slack bridge too

https://twitter.com/irccloud/status/971416931373854721

https://api.slack.com/faq#gateways this is relvant

https://github.com/erroneousboat/slack-term is the other thing linked in the faq

Nice. I might resurrect my IRCcloud account at some point.

@seancorfield you'll need a nice ircv3 client too I suspect

(I don't know if IRCCloud provide that)

You just linked to a tweet saying that's what they're releasing 🙂

I presumed IRCCloud was a bouncer, now with a fancy slack integration (in the bouncer) I didn't know they had a client.

Oh, I hadn't expanded the images, only read the tweet inline. I see now 😛

Very cool.

Oh, gotcha. Yeah, pretty such I had a nice IRCcloud client on my phone... but I used the browser version on the desktop.

https://ircv3.net/software/clients.html has a nice comparison of clients

Colloquy was what I used to use -- seems to do well on that comparison. At this point, given the weird fragmentation, it would be nice to have a single client app on the desktop that did Gitter, Discord, Riot/Matrix, IRC, and Slack (phew!)...

https://xkcd.com/1782/

@seancorfield weechat has lots of plugins. I'd bet it could support all of them. But no lovely UI polish.