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It's time to say goodbye to Twitter (sonniesedge.co.uk)"In retrospect, a single giant character-limited IRC server that you can’t split up into more interesting channels was a fucking terrible idea."
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I like the idea of giving the community the ability to help with this. That also happens to be the easiest thing to implement. Loqi now has a new
!kickcommand.- If you are +v (you're registered on irc-people), you can use the new
!kickcommand - You can say
!kick foobarto kick that person from the room, but only if they joined less than 5 minutes ago
- If you are +v (you're registered on irc-people), you can use the new
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Day 58: Showing Image Uploads in IRC from the Slack Gateway #100DaysOfIndieWeb
I consider my Slack/IRC gateway the best one out there, at least in terms of looking the most native to IRC users. We use this to connect the #indieweb IRC channel with our Slack team, so people can join the same rooms from either Slack or IRC. Often times people don't even realize that other users in IRC are actually connected via the Slack bridge! However, one glaring missing feature was that image uploads from Slack did not come through right. Today, I fixed that!
Now when you upload an image in Slack, it is converted to a message in IRC that should look "normal" to IRC users, as if the person had shared the image in IRC directly.
There are a few different ways images can be sent in Slack. When you upload an image, Slack provides fields for setting the image title (defaults to the filename), as well as adding a comment.
Here are the various combinations of ways images appear in Slack compared to how the gateway translates them to IRC.
Same Title as Filename
In this case, only a URL is sent in IRC, since it includes the filename at the end of the URL, which is typically what people in IRC are accustomed to seeing when people link to images. The image URL I actually ended up with from Slack ended with the "pub_secret" parameter, so I tacked on the filename at the end in order to both look better for people reading it, as well as to get IRC clients to recognize the image file extension and inline the image.
Different Title than Filename
In Slack, sometimes people include unique text in the image title which becomes part of the message they are sending.
In this case, the gateway includes the text they typed as the first part of the message in IRC, in order to approximate how it appears in Slack where the image title appears first.
Image with Comment
If you include a comment in the image upload screen, it appears below the image in Slack. Note that in this example I did not change the title of the file.
In this case, the message in IRC starts with the URL and includes the comment at the end of the line. (Also notice the emoji shows up properly!)
Image with Title and Comment
The last combination is possible when the user both sets a custom title and includes a comment.
Combining both previous examples, this includes the image title first, followed by the image URL, followed by the comment.
Happy image uploading!
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Day 46: Expanding the IRC/Slack Gateway to all IndieWeb Channels #100DaysOfIndieWeb
For quite some time, we've been running my IRC/Slack gateway so that our main #indieweb IRC channel is also available in Slack. It's great because it allows people to use the nice mobile-friendly Slack client, while also not locking ourselves into a proprietary platform. The bridge is also used to allow people to join the chat from our web interface.
Prior to the previous IndieWeb Summit (now over 6 months ago!), we only had one IRC channel. At the Summit, we decided to start using more channels to help keep technical discussions separate from general and user-centric discussions. (See https://indieweb.org/discuss for more details). However, the bridge was written with only one IRC channel in mind so it only bridged the main channel. Lately, we've had more people joining the Slack instance and it's started to cause fragmented discussions.
Today I updated the Slack gateway to be able to support multiple IRC/Slack channels!
You can define multiple pairs of channels in the config file, so that the gateway knows which Slack channels correspond with which IRC channels. When a message is received in Slack, a new IRC user joins all the defined rooms and the messages are routed appropriately.
This is live today, and is now bridging the following rooms:
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#indieweb in IRC to #indieweb in Slack
- #indieweb-dev in IRC to #dev in Slack
- #indieweb-chat in IRC to #chat in Slack
- #microformats in IRC to #microformats in Slack
- #knownchat in IRC to #known in Slack
- #bridgy in IRC to #bridgy in Slack
We have public logs for all the channels except for #indieweb-chat. We've intentionally always had an un-logged channel available for off-topic chatter. That channel has been called #indiechat. Even though we don't have a paid Slack account so the channel history is limited to 10,000 across all channels, I wasn't comfortable bridging the #indiechat room to Slack since it has traditionally been ephemeral, and sending it to Slack means that visibility would change a little. So instead, I used the under-consideration #indieweb-chat channel to connect with Slack since people weren't using that very much on IRC yet anyway.
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#indieweb in IRC to #indieweb in Slack
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@lrvick Thanks! A couple months after posting this I started using Glowing Bear on my iPhone! It's been great.
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WeeChat: easy instructions for using SASL (mikaela.info)"/unset irc.server.NETWORK.sasl_mechanism
/set irc.server.NETWORK.sasl_username REGISTERED_NICKNAME
/set irc.server.NETWORK.sasl_password PASSWORD
/save"
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@kevinmarks @LeaVerou @g33konaut @codepo8 I made a unified IRC/Slack/Web chat. It's hacky but works well. Part of it: https://github.com/aaronpk/Slack-IRC-Gateway
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Slack’s $2.8 Billion Dollar Secret Sauce (medium.com)
So, how did we get from hacky browser IRC to the Slack we all know and love?" "Like a well-built home, great software focuses on giving its users hundreds of small, satisfying interactions.
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@aallan Yep, Slack just took IRC-style interaction and made it more accessible to people. Nothing wrong with that, and still notable IMO!
