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slack-libpurple
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Purple-Teams: MS Teams Plugin for Pidgin
Eion Robb has done an incredible amount of work in this space. His GitHub page[1] has tons of plugins, and I particularly appreciate the work he has done on the Matrix plugin to make it available to Windows users.
Lest you think this is less than cool because you don't use Pidgin, bitlbee[2] is a great tool to get slack (and others!) into your IRC client. I haven't run it myself, but I know that it heavily relies on purple[3] for its magic. I can tell it gets a lot of use, perusing the issues on the slack purple plugin[4] for example.
1: https://github.com/EionRobb?tab=repositories
2: https://www.bitlbee.org/main.php/news.r.html
4: https://github.com/dylex/slack-libpurple/issues?q=is%3Aissue...
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GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023
Unpopular opinion number one: James is not that bad. At least it can do video calls properly which is not something I would say of Slack.
Unpopular opinion number two: pidgi was better and I don't why we all decided as an industry to go to these ridiculously heavy memory hog electron based clients. I use Slack from Pidgin to this day: https://github.com/dylex/slack-libpurple
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Use Slack from Emacs?
Another alternative is combining bitlbee with slack-libpurple and using an emacs IRC client, such as the built-in ERC. I used this back when I wanted both Discord and Slack available in the same emacs.
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One Week of Libera Chat
It's not IRC, but there exists a working libpurple plugin that you just auth as with your normal user account:
https://github.com/dylex/slack-libpurple
I just use it with Pidgin, but there are curses clients too (I'm aware of bitlbee, there are probably others) if you prefer the IRC-style experience.
purple-teams
- Resurrecting the Dillo Browser
- Purple-Teams: MS Teams Plugin for Pidgin
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GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023
For those having to endure Teams, try it from Pidgin, where you can at least e.g. customize what notifications you get and using interface that doesn't use half your RAM: https://github.com/EionRobb/purple-teams
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Mircosoft Teams desktop client on Linux is being retired and will be replaced by a progressive web app (running on Chrome/Edge).
It uses long-polling rather than polling for messages. There's a few bits that can be tricked into websockets though. I'm doing the long-polling method in the https://github.com/EionRobb/purple-teams teams plugin for Pidgin, but might switch to the websockets soon (to make the reverse webhooks websocket weirdness work for online/away statuses)
What are some alternatives?
bitlbee - An IRC to other chat networks gateway :bee:
lurch - XEP-0384: OMEMO Encryption for libpurple.
clap - Audio Plugin API
purple-signald - Pidgin libpurple bridge to signald.
purple-gowhatsapp - Pidgin/libpurple plugin for WhatsApp Web.
dlfcn-win32 - Official dlfcn-win32 repo
Radicale - A simple CalDAV (calendar) and CardDAV (contact) server.
groupme-purple - Fork of https://notabug.org/alyssa/groupme-purple, hopefully with updates.
teams-for-linux - Unofficial Microsoft Teams for Linux client
WebViewFeedback - Feedback and discussions about Microsoft Edge WebView2
wee-slack - A WeeChat script for Slack.com. Supports threads and reactions, synchronizes read markers, provides typing notification, etc..
icyque - ICQ WIM protocol for libpurple