The mIRC interface was in no way perfect, and yet it was so advanced we're apparently no longer able to recreate it

This is how it works in IRC, and how it needed to work in Twitter.

jimmyhillis/slack-irc-plugin

To find the right integration, I scoured the internet and tested a few different solutions. Some where just OVERLY complex, some just didnt work, and some were just right (Codename Goldilocks). The one that I found worked perfectly for me was ‘slack-irc-plugin‘, by Jimmy Hillis.

Connecting to Slack over IRC and XMPP

#meetingname Provide a friendly name which can be used as a variable in the filename patterns. For example, you can set filenamePattern = '%(channel)s/%%Y/%(meetingname)s.%%F-%%H.%%M' to allow #meetingname to categorize multiple types of meeting occurring in one channel.