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> a) Integration Managers are optional, and in no way required to "work properly". Do you have a link to a description of what integration managers do exactly?

> a) Integration Managers are optional, and in no way required to "work properly". Do you have a link to a description of what integration managers do exactly? > b) There's a great FOSS integration manager over at https://dimension.t2bot.io/ https://dimension.t2bot.io/ if you don't want to use the default one. Noted, thanks. My search results for "Matrix integration server" are flooded with irrelevant results

Arathorn 7y ago
> Do you have a link to a description of what integration managers do exactly? Dimension's page at https://matrix.org/docs/projects/other/dimension https://matrix.org/docs/projects/other/dimension gives a simple description. Beyond that, there's a lot more info buried in: https://matrix.org/blog/2019/06/30/tightening-up-privacy-in-matrix https://matrix.org/blog/2019/06/30/tightening-up-privacy-in-... and the subsequent: https://matrix.org/blog/2019/09/27/privacy-improvements-in-synapse-1-4-and-riot-1-4 https://matrix.org/blog/2019/09/27/privacy-improvements-in-s...
- progval 7y ago
  The blog posts don't really address what integration managers are (other than stating they are "the mechanism for adding hosted bots/bridges/widgets into rooms") only identity service (which I just learned about, though) Dimension's description lists: "giving users a way to add bridges, bots, and widgets to their rooms and account" I can understand widgets (they are iframes to a webpage served by the integration manager, right?), but mentioning bridges and bots confuse me. My understanding is that bridges (aka. appservices, if I'm understanding this correctly) connect directly to a homeserver. On IRC, bots connect as any other client to the server. Is this not true on Matrix? (ie. do bots use different APIs/protocols than "user agents"?) Or are integration managers in charge of running bridge and bot processes, like an init daemon? EDIT: I just chatted with someone else, and she tells me integration managers provide clients with a list of what bridges and "official" bots are available. And, I assume, links to enable them for a given room. Is that correct?
  - Arathorn 7y ago
    An integration manager is just a webapp which spins up and adds bots/bridges/widgets (collectively, 'integrations') for a given room - like a small appstore from which you can add extensions into a room. The available bots/bridges/widgets depend on the integration manager; i guess you could call the ones it chooses to provide "official" ones.

Arathorn 7y ago

> Do you have a link to a description of what integration managers do exactly? Dimension's page at https://matrix.org/docs/projects/other/dimension https://matrix.org/docs/projects/other/dimension gives a simple description. Beyond that, there's a lot more info buried in: https://matrix.org/blog/2019/06/30/tightening-up-privacy-in-matrix https://matrix.org/blog/2019/06/30/tightening-up-privacy-in-... and the subsequent: https://matrix.org/blog/2019/09/27/privacy-improvements-in-synapse-1-4-and-riot-1-4 https://matrix.org/blog/2019/09/27/privacy-improvements-in-s...

progval 7y ago
The blog posts don't really address what integration managers are (other than stating they are "the mechanism for adding hosted bots/bridges/widgets into rooms") only identity service (which I just learned about, though) Dimension's description lists: "giving users a way to add bridges, bots, and widgets to their rooms and account" I can understand widgets (they are iframes to a webpage served by the integration manager, right?), but mentioning bridges and bots confuse me. My understanding is that bridges (aka. appservices, if I'm understanding this correctly) connect directly to a homeserver. On IRC, bots connect as any other client to the server. Is this not true on Matrix? (ie. do bots use different APIs/protocols than "user agents"?) Or are integration managers in charge of running bridge and bot processes, like an init daemon? EDIT: I just chatted with someone else, and she tells me integration managers provide clients with a list of what bridges and "official" bots are available. And, I assume, links to enable them for a given room. Is that correct?
- Arathorn 7y ago
  An integration manager is just a webapp which spins up and adds bots/bridges/widgets (collectively, 'integrations') for a given room - like a small appstore from which you can add extensions into a room. The available bots/bridges/widgets depend on the integration manager; i guess you could call the ones it chooses to provide "official" ones.