matrix-appservice-discord

In my experience Mautrix has been very easy to run and can bridge new channels automatically as they're created. I use Matrix exclusively to chat with my friends on Discord. https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-discord

Related: As an operator/mod/admin it's fairly straight-forward to bridge a Discord channel to Matrix (and, if one so desires, from there to IRC), allowing users not on Discord to participate. Conservative mods concerned about spam can start with an allowlist for which servers can join. https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-discord

In case you're not aware, as an operator/mod/admin it's fairly straight-forward to bridge a Discord channel to Matrix (and, if one so desires, from there to IRC), allowing users not on Discord to participate. Conservative mods concerned about spam can start with an allowlist for which servers can join. https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-discord

Is there going to be more muscle put into polishing up the various bridges? Matrix has an amazing opportunity to be the glue protocol between various communication silos, but there's a few things I've encountered that have been preventing me from using it further. One issue I hit is this: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-slack/issues... I tried pinging the people that were committing to the repo on the matrix channel for that bridge, but never got a response and now I'm just stuck with a room with a dead bridge. It's not a huge deal since the Matrix side of things still works, but having some way to reach out for stuff like that would be really helpful. The other thing is this issue: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-discord/issu... It's not a showstopper since the bridge still works, but it's a lot of managem

there are matrix bridges for all three of those https://github.com/tulir/mautrix-whatsapp https://github.com/Half-Shot/matrix-appservice-discord https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-slack

Matrix has at least two excellent commandline clients fwiw; https://github.com/poljar/weechat-matrix (written in contemporary python) which even supports full E2E encryption, complete with things like emoji-based key verification; and https://github.com/tulir/gomuks (written in Go, as the name implies). And you can bridge to Discord with pretty good parity via https://github.com/Half-Shot/matrix-appservice-discord. So open options do exist :)

The bridging API in matrix hasn’t really changed since day 1, so unsure how they can be outdated for Matrix. For something like Discord, folks are constantly hacking on the bridge; PRs merged 5 days ago on https://github.com/Half-Shot/matrix-appservice-discord for instance, and last I checked it worked relatively well and targets the highest common denominator of functionality between Matrix and Discord. Lost messages sounds like the server is overloaded (certainly there is performance work still to be done). Unsure it’s fair to say that it’s barely developed...