weechat-matrix

It seems only #xmonad on freenode is affected, so I've been asked by @matrixdotorg to report an issue and I'll do that asap. Also, #xmonad:matrix.org being invite only seems to be another bug. I contacted the room admin who sent me a similar screenshot as you did, showing that the room is _not_ set to invite-only, and they had to upgrade the room version from 1 to 6 to fix it. I can now join the room. I have to say this has been a very frustrating experience. In addition to these two problems with #xmonad, I also suffer from https://github.com/poljar/weechat-matrix/issues/248, https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack/issues/812. I am afraid the takeaway is that Matrix is not ready yet. :-/

I'm not sure anyone has written an irssi plugin specifically, but there's an excellent weechat plugin (https://github.com/poljar/weechat-matrix). As others have said, there's also matrix-ircd which exposes all of Matrix as an IRC server you can connect to from whatever IRC client floats your boat, but you end up speaking the subset of Matrix which can be represented as IRC, which is a bit of a shame.

Apart from the official official clients: weechat-matrix: https://github.com/poljar/weechat-matrix/issues/188 (doesn't support cross-signing) weechat-matrix-rs: https://github.com/poljar/weechat-matrix-rs/tree/9c249f14038... (build failing, would be surprised if it supported cross-signing) Mirage: https://github.com/mirukana/mirage/issues/32 (no support for cross-signing) Nheko: https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko/issues/70 (automatically accepts keys as far as I understand) gomuks: https://github.com/tulir/gomuks/pull/154 (seems to be the only mention of encryption, I don't see verification of keys or cross-signing) Seaglass: https://github.com/neilalexander/seaglass/tree/dc97893343407... (seems to support e2e, but unfortunately macOS only) OCRCC Chatbox: https://github.com/nomadic-labs/ocrcc-chatbox (404, couldn't find it) FluffyChat

I looked into it a couple of times, but most clients lack E2E encryption support, and the oficial ones are Electron monsters. We mostly work over SSH on remote workstations, hence the CLI/TUI requirement. Altough, it seems there is a plugin for WeeChat with E2E encryption[1]. Gotta take a look. [1] https://github.com/poljar/weechat-matrix

weechat-matrix gets a lot of attention, works really well, has full E2EE support, and weechat at least is in major package managers. Matrix is evolving pretty fast though, so you'll probably have to install your own matrix plugin from https://github.com/poljar/weechat-matrix. Meanwhile gomuks also exists and is usable and not abandoned. On GUI Desktop, various clients are in active dev - e.g. Fractal for GTK/Rust, Quaternion for Qt/C++, Nheko for Qt/QML, etc. They are not as complete as Riot yet, but I'm sure PRs are welcome...