On: Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways

[racer-v]

From what I have seen the best solution for bridging chat protocols is a "tube" from https://sameroom.io - not free though.

[ryukafalz → racer-v]

If you're looking to bridge Slack and IRC, Matrix does a pretty good job of that.

https://imgur.com/a/f2fuO

I don't believe anyone's written a fully-functional XMPP connector yet though.

[rekoros → racer-v]

Free for some providers that have Sameroom-operated "BridgeBots".

Any combination of Hangouts, Skype, GroupMe, Telegram, and Gitter is free to connect.

We also had a Freenode BridgeBot, but couldn't get around the max connections per user issue.

[MaxLeiter → rekoros]

Freenode permits I-lines for multiple users from the same IP. Have you looked into that?

[rekoros → MaxLeiter]

We’re all whitelisted in terms of IPs. The issue is with # connections from the same nick. We worked with Freenode to find a solution and it didn’t pan out.

The overwhelming majority of customers connect to Slack though, so it wouldn’t matter price-wise.

I think I’m the only one reading #stripe from Skype :-)

[racer-v → rekoros]

Does that mean if I want to use an open source client with Slack, I can use the Gitter BridgeBot and open source Gitter client? Does it work with private Slack channels?

[rekoros → racer-v]

It does