Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways
Duh of course. I can't believe the wholesale abandonment of IRC by so many open source communities for Slack. It's been so... so... horrifying to watch. Can't you see we're giving up critical data and history to an outfit that no one has control over whatsoever.<p>Slack charges you to search the history beyond a certain number of messages.<p>SLACK CHARGES YOU TO SEARCH THE HISTORY BEYOND A CERTAIN NUMBER OF MESSAGES!<p>Yeah, let's make everyone all across the world pay to access a software community's most vital resource regardless of their income or even means to pay. Let's actively make this information sit behind a paywall accessible only by those privileged enough to breach it, but only as long as they keep paying month after month.