What does the current emoji support look like? (<a href="https://github.com/erroneousboat/slack-term/blob/b871a9ad0c8d610d9e55ef819d86ca8b6aeb2ed3/service/slack.go#L475" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/erroneousboat/slack-term/blob/b871a9ad0c8...</a> seems to suggest they aren't rendered?)<p>In my experience custom emojis is the most important driver of Slack use ;).
Obviously slack got something right, otherwise people would still use irc. It always amazes me how we devs fail to ack the business side of a success case as slack. And if any contender in the space fail to identify what slack got right they won't thrive.<p>Maybe it was the ui, or some particular features, but they did resonate with the users. And now they are the benchmark that all the others will compare to.
I use this personally. Its great. Hides all the cruft that people post in slack as text.
I've been working on trying to extend it on the side.<p>A chat client should not be taking over 1GB of RAM
I miss the days where people recognized that using using 20MB of RAM for a trivial task is obscene.<p>(Great tool, much better than the awful official client, but 20MB is actually a lot of RAM.)
Any reason to use this over the officially supported IRC/XMPP gateway?<p><a href="https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connect-to-Slack-over-IRC-and-XMPP" rel="nofollow">https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connect-t...</a>
Alternatively, this plugin: <a href="https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack</a> for WeeChat is surprisingly full-featured.
I just want something between this and Slack's mac app, which sometimes doesn't want to load on even Starbucks wifi. Ideally a GUI app that can load messages on airplane wifi would be amazing. Every time I try to open slack on an airplane it just sits there loading and loading and loading.<p>Maybe one day!
I would hope that people would spend their effort improving open systems instead of closed ones. The same effort could be spent improving matrix (via a terminal client if one of the existing ones don't suit or improving the slack bridge or implementing features slack has and matrix is missing)
So we've gone from IRC which worked perfectly fine to a billion dollar business just to port that software back to the terminal, where we started out to begin with<p>I don't understand this world any more
For those looking for another alternative to the heavy weight Slack client:<p><a href="https://github.com/bkanber/Slackadaisical" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/bkanber/Slackadaisical</a><p>Been using it, works fine as well. Good job OP though, diversity of offering is always good!
Now I want a mattermost version of this; the mattermost native client for linux is so terrible as to be nigh unusable (I need to restart it every 24-72 hours as it just hangs regularly).
I remember there was a multi-IM client called centericq which was console-based and pretty awesome. I used it for several years back when ICQ was still a thing.<p>Yes I know about irssi and friends, but they're not really having an UI, many things are commands or config based, but centericq was.
This cool, but not terribly usable right now if your team uses threads a lot. Thread messages are mixed into the main channel with no context and no way to reply to them.
Apps like Slack make millions of dollars every day. What's their excuse to not hire platform-oriented devs to build native apps that run smoother?