Slack Is Shutting Down Its IRC Gateway
Found on Slashdot on Saturday, 10 March 2018
Slack, a team collaboration communication service, has updated its IRC support page to note that it is ending support for IRC on its platform.
"As Slack has evolved over the years, we've built features and capabilities -- like Shared Channels, Threads, and emoji reactions (to name a few) -- that the IRC and XMPP gateways aren't able to handle. Our priority is to provide a secure and high-quality experience across all platforms, and so the time has come to close the gateways."
It sure is an essential and crucial feature to have skillfully designed emoji in a chat that's also aimed at business users. The good thing about this is that IRC will still be there when Slack has been long forgotten.