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Another, and better, alternative to slack: IRC.




Until they figure out a better way to bridge to Slack and other popular walled gardens, it will remain in the realm of those universal IM chat programs of yore, always chasing proprietary protocol changes.


what's the problem with the slack bridging btw? the fact it needs webhooks? (a puppeted bridge is on the horizon that logs you in natively as your slack user)




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