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We tend to be pretty conservative on maturity estimates on Matrix (and bad at keeping the website updated). IRC, Slack, Gitter bridges are all considered stabl

We tend to be pretty conservative on maturity estimates on Matrix (and bad at keeping the website updated). IRC, Slack, Gitter bridges are all considered stable these days. XMPP, Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp work usably too. The UX for managing them is not always great or consistent (we’re working on that currently), but “yet another protocol with its own chatrooms” is untrue. You can certainly access the entirety of Matrix via Bifrost (the XMPP bridge) if you so desire, for instance.

progval 7y ago
I only have experience with the IRC one, which is ok, but I think it deserves to still be considered Beta (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21944035 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21944035 ) Regarding Bifrost, it's the first time I hear about it. I'm glad it exists. Is there an hosted instance that allows me to access Matrix rooms without installing anything other than an XMPP client? I can't find any info about it other than the code repo.
- Arathorn 7y ago
  The IRC bridge shouldn’t restart that frequently (and we’re in the process of decoupling the irc connectors from the bridge itself so we can fix bugs in the bridge without bouncing all its connections). Membership should categorically be synced correctly - if you ban a Matrix user on IRC their Matrix side should be kicked out too. If not, it’s a bug and we need to know the details asap. The only scenario I can think of here is if the matrix server was lagging on handling traffic, but that shouldn’t cause a desync like this either. For bifrost; we used to run one on matrix.org but temporarily stopped due to lack of ops bandwidth. There’s a community one somewhere though - come ask in #bridges:matrix.org about it
  - Arathorn 7y ago
    #matrix#matrix.org@half-shot.uk is the community one (and would take you to matrix from xmpp)
Meldane 7y ago
Hi, I am trying to write an article in French to introduce Matrix to a wider public. Especially non tech people. So I'd like to describe the possibilities accurately. Bridges are a very interesting feature, but how do you implement them ? I went to the #whatsapp:maunium.net room and only saw guys wondering the same thing with no answer given to them. I went to https://github.com/tulir/mautrix-whatsapp/wiki/Bridge-setup https://github.com/tulir/mautrix-whatsapp/wiki/Bridge-setup and understood they have to be implemented from the server itself ? Is that right ? So as a basic user I can't really make any adjustment on my side to join a Whatsapp group from Matrix, right ?
- Arathorn 7y ago
  https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-bridge/blob/master/HOWTO.md https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-bridge/blob/... explains how to write them. For adding them to a chat as a user, you need to use an integration manager (eg t2bot.io) or to run one yourself.

progval 7y ago

I only have experience with the IRC one, which is ok, but I think it deserves to still be considered Beta (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21944035 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21944035 ) Regarding Bifrost, it's the first time I hear about it. I'm glad it exists. Is there an hosted instance that allows me to access Matrix rooms without installing anything other than an XMPP client? I can't find any info about it other than the code repo.

Arathorn 7y ago
The IRC bridge shouldn’t restart that frequently (and we’re in the process of decoupling the irc connectors from the bridge itself so we can fix bugs in the bridge without bouncing all its connections). Membership should categorically be synced correctly - if you ban a Matrix user on IRC their Matrix side should be kicked out too. If not, it’s a bug and we need to know the details asap. The only scenario I can think of here is if the matrix server was lagging on handling traffic, but that shouldn’t cause a desync like this either. For bifrost; we used to run one on matrix.org but temporarily stopped due to lack of ops bandwidth. There’s a community one somewhere though - come ask in #bridges:matrix.org about it
- Arathorn 7y ago
  #matrix#matrix.org@half-shot.uk is the community one (and would take you to matrix from xmpp)

Meldane 7y ago

Hi, I am trying to write an article in French to introduce Matrix to a wider public. Especially non tech people. So I'd like to describe the possibilities accurately. Bridges are a very interesting feature, but how do you implement them ? I went to the #whatsapp:maunium.net room and only saw guys wondering the same thing with no answer given to them. I went to https://github.com/tulir/mautrix-whatsapp/wiki/Bridge-setup https://github.com/tulir/mautrix-whatsapp/wiki/Bridge-setup and understood they have to be implemented from the server itself ? Is that right ? So as a basic user I can't really make any adjustment on my side to join a Whatsapp group from Matrix, right ?

Arathorn 7y ago
https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-bridge/blob/master/HOWTO.md https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-bridge/blob/... explains how to write them. For adding them to a chat as a user, you need to use an integration manager (eg t2bot.io) or to run one yourself.