@agile_geek that seems to be how the irc gateway works, and maybe always will?
I guess they could create lots of temporary channels
yeah, it'll be slightly clunky with replies from IRC channels.
Maybe if you had a unique reference point to "reply" to, that would also work. but also not a great solution
oh I guess that's a big downside of the irc approach; can't reply to threads
so much for me and my http://xkcd.com/1782/
Yeah, I've always respected that.
Although I chose Slack when I started Clojurians, I'm still a big fan of IRC to be fair and have used it everyday for over 20 years 😕 #contradiction
I think you still got a lot of people using this slack than might have made it onto the IRC channels #justsaying 🙂