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		notpushkin 1 day ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenAI should build Slack It’s a good thing that Slack uses WebSockets! I think they even had the API for custom clients available, it’s only for Slack Apps now: https://docs.slack.dev/apis/events-api/using-socket-mode/ (And of course, way back then there was an official IRC interface, too)

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ffsm8 23 hours ago [–]

Duh...

My comment was a response to

> Slack would be a lot better if they supported clients via rest api or similar.

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