Oh you're right, I didn't see that. I kinda see where he's coming from. Even when I tried to get all my chat apps merged into Matrix bridges, I still used Quas

Oh you're right, I didn't see that. I kinda see where he's coming from. Even when I tried to get all my chat apps merged into Matrix bridges, I still used Quassel to connect to IRC (and get some mod cons like scrollback on demand!). Matrix doesn't translate well to IRC. Joining 20-30 channels on each network just makes matrix too cluttery. At least in Element. However it depends on the kind of bridge. If you do full network integration then it's a bit annoying because not all joined users are visible on the IRC side and the bridge pops them in and out as needed. And it also causes some side effects like users that just joined being able to scroll back to conversations they were never part of! This is one of the reasons a lot of IRC networks don't allow Matrix. However, you can also do puppet bridging for personal use in which Matrix just becomes a fancy personal IRC bouncer and nobody even knows about it :) I don't think the lack of E2EE is a big issue on IRC at all. After all it is meant for wide communication with people you don't know. Anyone can join it if they want, so there is no expectation of privacy except perhaps for DMs/queries. In the same way I don't like having to deal with E2EE in public Matrix rooms.