slack in Ubintu?

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Thanks, I am not using Linux directly, but a service which is based on 
Ubuntu as a shell.
will pass this thread on and thank you  for several  prospects.
Kare



On Sun, 25 Sep 2022, Hendursaga wrote:

> Karen Lewellen <klewellen at shellworld.net> writes:
>
>> Anyone have first hand experience using the program in Linux generally, or a Ubuntu shell specifically?
>
> I generally just use the browser client, I'm afraid, but sclack[1] was the last TUI client I tested, though I doubt it's very screen-reader friendly, unfortunately. I've looked around and it appears irslackd[2] might be the best Slack API <-> IRC gateway around. There's also localslackirc[3], which is packaged in Debian and thus Ubuntu, though if the version packaged is a bit old you might want to compile from source.
>
>> I understand there used to be an IRC client, but that the company no longer provides the Authentication token used to run it.
>
> An IRC gateway, yes.
>
> ~ Hendursaga
>
> [1] https://github.com/haskellcamargo/sclack
> [2] https://github.com/adsr/irslackd
> [3] https://github.com/ltworf/localslackirc
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