Networking seems as good a place as any to post this. For those who use slack, whether by choice or not, I suspect many, like myself, prefer using it with irssi or weechat. At any rate, as of May 15th, 2018, Slack discontinued their irc gateway. I'd seen the announcements, but basically found out the hard way when my irssi window went from something like 15 windows to 4. 
They did suggest the (unsupported by them) wee-slack plugin. It's a python script that you can load with weechat, and allows you to continue using slack from a terminal or console while keeping your irc channels in the same terminal. As having to have had a browser page open for slack would have been a major annoyance to my workflow, I was glad to find this, and figured I'd pass it along in case other had the same problem. (Meh, maybe I'm the only one at a company who uses slack, but ya never know.)
https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack is the page. You don't have to build it, just start from the setup section in the middle of the page and follow the instructions. You install py-websocket-client and py27-six, then get the script. (Their instructions use wget, but you can use fetch of course.)
Worked like a charm for me. As the change (of stopping irc support, thereby breaking irssi for me) caught me by surprise, I found this very useful.
Hopefully, this won't degenerate into a discussion of how bad Slack is. Though I did find myself amused, when first googling the issue, by the xkcd strip. https://xkcd.com/1782/
And hopefully it won't degenerate into a discussion of how bad in general the current reliance on GUIs is. It started with html mail, and I remember, in the early double oughts, even the MS lists would rant about the increase in html mail and the attack vectors it opened.
I think many of us (or maybe mostly the older folks) already dislike the increasing reliance upon GUIs, often at the expense of text based things. But sad to say, it is a fact.
They did suggest the (unsupported by them) wee-slack plugin. It's a python script that you can load with weechat, and allows you to continue using slack from a terminal or console while keeping your irc channels in the same terminal. As having to have had a browser page open for slack would have been a major annoyance to my workflow, I was glad to find this, and figured I'd pass it along in case other had the same problem. (Meh, maybe I'm the only one at a company who uses slack, but ya never know.)
https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack is the page. You don't have to build it, just start from the setup section in the middle of the page and follow the instructions. You install py-websocket-client and py27-six, then get the script. (Their instructions use wget, but you can use fetch of course.)
Worked like a charm for me. As the change (of stopping irc support, thereby breaking irssi for me) caught me by surprise, I found this very useful.
Hopefully, this won't degenerate into a discussion of how bad Slack is. Though I did find myself amused, when first googling the issue, by the xkcd strip. https://xkcd.com/1782/
And hopefully it won't degenerate into a discussion of how bad in general the current reliance on GUIs is. It started with html mail, and I remember, in the early double oughts, even the MS lists would rant about the increase in html mail and the attack vectors it opened.
I think many of us (or maybe mostly the older folks) already dislike the increasing reliance upon GUIs, often at the expense of text based things. But sad to say, it is a fact.
Seems it can connect with Slack as well. So, just to give an alternative here