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Oh, that's interesting. I did not see any amount of money in those blogposts, do you have an idea how much it cost? Also it appears Gitter is actually not oper
by southerntofu 5y ago
Oh, that's interesting. I did not see any amount of money in those blogposts, do you have an idea how much it cost?
Also it appears Gitter is actually not operating a matrix server, but is instead bridged with https://www.matrix.org/docs/projects/bridge/native-gitter-bridge https://www.matrix.org/docs/projects/bridge/native-gitter-br... ? Does that mean gitter.im is only reachable from matrix.org?
Personally when i had to join a gitter room, i would join from my XMPP account using the @matrix.org gateway (which despite being unreliable is very nice) so i have no clue.
- detaro 5y agoSome of the Matrix folks are active on HN, maybe they mentioned something in the discussions back then? But I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't much if anything - my impression was that Gitlab didn't really know what to do with gitter, so giving it to messaging-focused project would make some sense. No, bridged rooms generally are reachable from any instance. It's just that the bridge talks to matrix.org and matrix.org "hosts" (that's not 100% accurate afaik to how Matrix works, but close enough for this) the room just like any other matrix.org room, that is also reachable from other instances.
- Tmpod 5y agoFrom what I know, they are still bridging, but in the long run (I assume they are somewhat waiting for stable Dendrite, since Synapse is shit for massive deployments) I believe they want to run an actual homeserver in gitter.im and have a sort of Gitter themed/branded Element client for it.
- escalt 5y agoThis is already the case. There is an actual matrix server reachable @gitter.im and you can join gitter rooms through it
- southerntofu 5y agoah thanks for that information! it was not apparent from the blogpost/docs about it on matrix side