That's an interesting perspective. For another try reading the multiple attempts the libera team made to accommodate the slow progress and security holes on the

That's an interesting perspective. For another try reading the multiple attempts the libera team made to accommodate the slow progress and security holes on the Matrix side before the decision was made to close the the bridge permanently. Updates on the matrix<>IRC bridge (Jun 7th) https://libera.chat/news/matrix-irc-bridge-updates https://libera.chat/news/matrix-irc-bridge-updates Disabling Matrix Portalling (July 3rd) https://libera.chat/news/matrix-deportalling https://libera.chat/news/matrix-deportalling Delays in Disabling Matrix Portalling (July 28th) https://libera.chat/news/deportalling-delay https://libera.chat/news/deportalling-delay Temporarily disabling the Matrix Bridge (August 5th) https://libera.chat/news/temporarily-disabling-the-matrix-bridge https://libera.chat/news/temporarily-disabling-the-matrix-br... Matrix Bridge Temporary Shutdown, a Retrospective (August 10th) https://libera.chat/news/matrix-bridge-disabled-retrospective https://libera.chat/news/matrix-bridge-disabled-retrospectiv... It was sad to see a few matrix people drop away but most of the activity and users were/are on the IRC side. And of the active matrix users I considered friends most just decided to connect to IRC using a real client. Much like Slack started off with an IRC bridge to bootstrap itself with IRC communities the Riot.im/Element.io corporation no longer feels the need to maintain the bootstrapping and does not allocate resources for it.