@johanatan: +1 from me

Wait, how is slack-irc different from the IRC support Slack already has?

I’ve never tried using Slack from my irc client mind you

It's a bridge-- the activity in each channel is mirrored in the other. Essentially melding the two into one

I imagine that using Slack from your IRC client is still Slack-only comms

Just a diff delivery mechanism

http://www.pilgrimbreak.com/how-to-access-slack-with-command-line-irc-client-irssi/ I guess I still don’t understand the difference

to me that looks like if I wanted to, I could use irssi (or some other irc client) to join to IRC networks and to Slack

and it would be no different from chatting on multiple irc networks

did not know about this, will try it

is it enabled here?

it's still a little annoying having to connect to multiple channels/networks

No idea. Someone mentioned using an IRC client before, but now having moved to the Slack client

though not sure if that was for Clojurians or some other team. Probably work related

the idea with the bridge would be to copy messages from #C03S1KBA2 freenode to #C03S1KBA2 slack and vice versa

so you only need to watch one channel

Ooh shit

I see

I didn’t see the keyword “channel"

my bad

@johanatan: maybe the blog post could have a better title? I hope I’m not the only one who didn’t realise what slack-irc is at first

When I saw the blog post my immediate reaction was “but Slack already has IRC support"

but maybe I’m just dumb 😄

@kauko: The title is "Bridging Slack and IRC" and that meant to me what I thought it would before reading the article (also those are the search terms I used to find the article in the first place). It looks like you made a snap judgement based on the URL rather than the article title.

I think we need an admin to install it though so if any admins are out there and reading this, it would really be great IMHO to install this.