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There is so riot.im which is built on top of Matrix.org (which was built for federation and E2E encryption). There are already IRC and Discord bridges to matrix

There is so riot.im which is built on top of Matrix.org (which was built for federation and E2E encryption). There are already IRC and Discord bridges to matrix. Riot is being deployed as the govt chat infrastructure for 5 million users in France. The SaaS version is modular.im (much cheaper than slack)

djsumdog 8y ago
That's the next thing on my list to setup. I want to get a synapse server up with FB Messenger/Hangouts/IRC/Discord and Slack bridges to bring all my messaging back under a gateway I control (even if I have no control over the actual chat services) and a unified accessible history.
- petejodo 8y ago
  I'd like to read about how that goes! This is exactly what I want as well. I hear synapse requires a good amount of resources
  - Leace 8y ago
    That seems to be confirmed by admins running bigger servers such as disroot [0]. [0]: https://disroot.org/en/blog/matrix-closure https://disroot.org/en/blog/matrix-closure
    - xf86alsa 8y ago
      It's worth sharing that the RAM and CPU usage requirements have gone down monumentally since the migration to python3. Disroot's announcement was before the switch. The team even talked about it with one of the devs in the latest Matrix Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad3oqEo5leM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad3oqEo5leM
  - patcon 8y ago
    fwiw, i have another bridge Matterbridge, running on a free heroku instance: https://github.com/patcon/matterbridge-heroku https://github.com/patcon/matterbridge-heroku It's pretty great. (Not just for mattermost, but most major chat plaforms)
torarnv 8y ago
I used riot.im as my primary IRC client (via its IRC bridge) from home, work, and on mobile, for a year or so. Unfortunately there were lots of issues and bugs, to the point where I couldn't trust that when I wrote someone a message they would get it, or vice versa, so I had to give up on it. I'm now a happy IRCCloud user.
- tibu 8y ago
  We're dropping riot because of the same reason right now. Sometimes messages do not pop up as push and that makes communication unreliable.
  - sandGorgon 8y ago
    Are you facing this issue with chats on Riot itself or as a bridge to IRC ? Because as a slack replacement, riot is pretty cool (and there some redesign happening ). Most of the criticism is around its IRC bridging, which I agree is a little unstable. But let's face it - nobody else (slack et al) even tries.
    - torarnv 8y ago
      Only with the IRC bridge, which is the primary use-case for me since so much of my existing community chats are on IRC still. IRCCloud also bridges to Slack, so I get both in the same (synced across devices) interface.
johnchristopher 8y ago
> Riot is being deployed as the govt chat infrastructure for 5 million users in France. Is that a done thing ? I haven't heard about it in a while.

djsumdog 8y ago

That's the next thing on my list to setup. I want to get a synapse server up with FB Messenger/Hangouts/IRC/Discord and Slack bridges to bring all my messaging back under a gateway I control (even if I have no control over the actual chat services) and a unified accessible history.

petejodo 8y ago
I'd like to read about how that goes! This is exactly what I want as well. I hear synapse requires a good amount of resources
- Leace 8y ago
  That seems to be confirmed by admins running bigger servers such as disroot [0]. [0]: https://disroot.org/en/blog/matrix-closure https://disroot.org/en/blog/matrix-closure
  - xf86alsa 8y ago
    It's worth sharing that the RAM and CPU usage requirements have gone down monumentally since the migration to python3. Disroot's announcement was before the switch. The team even talked about it with one of the devs in the latest Matrix Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad3oqEo5leM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad3oqEo5leM
- patcon 8y ago
  fwiw, i have another bridge Matterbridge, running on a free heroku instance: https://github.com/patcon/matterbridge-heroku https://github.com/patcon/matterbridge-heroku It's pretty great. (Not just for mattermost, but most major chat plaforms)

torarnv 8y ago

I used riot.im as my primary IRC client (via its IRC bridge) from home, work, and on mobile, for a year or so. Unfortunately there were lots of issues and bugs, to the point where I couldn't trust that when I wrote someone a message they would get it, or vice versa, so I had to give up on it. I'm now a happy IRCCloud user.

tibu 8y ago
We're dropping riot because of the same reason right now. Sometimes messages do not pop up as push and that makes communication unreliable.
- sandGorgon 8y ago
  Are you facing this issue with chats on Riot itself or as a bridge to IRC ? Because as a slack replacement, riot is pretty cool (and there some redesign happening ). Most of the criticism is around its IRC bridging, which I agree is a little unstable. But let's face it - nobody else (slack et al) even tries.
  - torarnv 8y ago
    Only with the IRC bridge, which is the primary use-case for me since so much of my existing community chats are on IRC still. IRCCloud also bridges to Slack, so I get both in the same (synced across devices) interface.

johnchristopher 8y ago

> Riot is being deployed as the govt chat infrastructure for 5 million users in France. Is that a done thing ? I haven't heard about it in a while.