#91 Slack channels not appearing in *jabber-roster* after signin

[Duncan Bayne]

jabber: 20170106.1603 from MELPA
emacs: GNU Emacs 25.3.1
OS: FreeBSD x220 11.1-RELEASE amd64

I can signin to Slack's XMPP gateway using Jabber, but only individual users appear in the Roster, not any channels (which I imagine would be MUCs in Jabber).

Further, I can't choose any extant Slack channels when executing jabber-muc-join.

[Duncan Bayne]

I think this is related to: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/13899/connecting-to-slack-channels-with-jabber

[Duncan Bayne]

I have raised a support ticket with Slack, and directed them at this bug. I'll post any updates here.

[Duncan Bayne]

It looks like the Slack folks are well aware that their XMPP gateway isn't standards compliant.

Jabber clients and our XMPP gateway are not necessarily handle everything strictly according to standards. So it's quite hard to call up a list of channels, and the best way to join them in Jabber is to use roomname@conference.name.xmpp.slack.com and sign in to them individually.

We're not actively developing the gateways at this point unfortunately.

Sorry I don't have better answer here. Please do let me know if you have any further questions.

I've re-opened the issue, and asked them whether they have any intention of fixing the problem.

[Duncan Bayne]

They're defintiely not going to be fixing it :(

Thank you for your reply, and I'm very sorry to hear that the XMPP gateway doesn't work.
We're not actively developing the gateways at this point, unfortunately. Therefore, the behaviour will not change.