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ekmartin / slack-irc

Connects Slack and IRC channels by sending messages back and forth.
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README now clear on where things need to be installed #209

Closed douglasawh closed 7 years ago

douglasawh commented 7 years ago

I'm definitely a slack n00b. I have slightly more experience in IRC, but I know basically nothing about managing one.

A volunteer org I essentially run has a channel on freenode and a slack. Running the npm command sounds easy enough, but I don't have access to slack or freenode servers, so...where do I run this? Do I just run it on a separate server and all the traffic goes through the third server?

I'm happy to give exact names of the freenode channel and such if that is helpful, but that feels spammy.

ekmartin commented 7 years ago

Yes, exactly. You run the bot on a server you own, such as one from DigitalOcean etc. There are a few services that make hosting Node.js stuff easier, but they often pause your service from time to time which makes it less than perfect for bots.

Let me know if you have any other questions about how to keep it running etc.