C2c22·May 27, 2021
There's also an older Lua version: https://github.com/torhve/weechat-matrix-protocol-script
In Freenode ops take control of 700 channelstorhve
weechat-matrix-protocol-script
Lua2016–2021
torhve / weechat-matrix-protocol-script
weechat-matrix-protocol-script
A WeeChat script in Lua that implements the matrix.org chat protocol
6Distinct people
6Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
342GitHub stars
What to know before exploring
What it is
A WeeChat script in Lua that implements the matrix.org chat protocol
GitHub
Where it is used
No documented product use has been verified yet.
What people are saying
No recommendation phrase was found in the indexed comments.
No classified warning is attached to this page. Read the discussions before treating silence as approval.
Also in these discussions
No other repository is repeatedly linked in the same discussions.
This week on Hacker News
Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 12:54:37 PM UTC.
No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.
Mentions over time
HN mentions by year6 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2016-08-11 12:55:19 UTC to 2021-05-27 10:26:51 UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
View mention counts and date ranges
| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
6 sourcesThis (and previously, https://github.com/torhve/weechat-matrix-protocol-script) has been my primary way of accessing Matrix for well over a year on PC-esque setups. It's amazing as long as you don't care about the video/call functionality. Much, much lighter than Riot yet more feature-full than most of the native GUI clients (nheko, fractal, etc.) IMO.
In Moznet IRC is dead; long live Mozilla MatrixIt's a shame that the Matrix website listing clients[1] don't mention weechat-matrix and instead mentions the outdated Lua plugin[2] that doesn't support Megolm at all.
I've been using Riot for a few years and it's nice, but it would've been nice to know that there is a modern Weechat plugin implementation (I was half considering writing one myself).
It's also super neat to see that they wrote their own Python Matrix client library[3], which is something I also needed for another idea I'm working on (the library linked to from the Matrix site also seems to be less suitable than this one).
[1]: https://matrix.org/docs/projects/try-matrix-now
[2]: https://github.com/torhve/weechat-matrix-protocol-script
[3]: https://github.com/poljar/matrix-nio
In France Enters the MatrixThere's a Weechat plugin [1], however I remember it having problems with UI lags. In addition, the official Freenode bridge on matrix.org often has problems as well, but that's what I get for not bothering to run my own bridge. At least it seems like the Weechat plugin is under active development. [2] I should give it another try.
[1] https://matrix.org/docs/projects/client/weechat.html
[2] https://github.com/torhve/weechat-matrix-protocol-script
In Status.im Invests $5M in Riot.imThere is a Weechat plugin.
https://github.com/torhve/weechat-matrix-protocol-script
In Standalone Signal DesktopExamples for what? There are some screenshots of Glowing Bear on the GitHub page (https://github.com/glowing-bear/glowing-bear) and in a blog post I once wrote (https://4z2.de/2014/04/10/glowing-bear, probably outdated). I use it with a sans-serif font on the Desktop, too. The UI is quite hackable, you can add custom CSS rules to override things to your liking in the settings (simply changing the font doesn't require that, though).
Some useful scripts include colorize_nicks.py (colourises nicks in messages, to make them stand out over the text) and grep.py (easily and efficiently search logs). Matrix.lua (https://github.com/torhve/weechat-matrix-protocol-script) allows you to use the Matrix protocol with WeeChat, and by extension Glowing Bear.
Trigger-wise, I have triggers that remove colour from status messages (most of them are just noi
Read the rest
se) or replace (lenny) with ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) when I send a message, mostly because I can ;)
Getting push notifications requires a bit of setup, but there are scripts for Pushbullet/Pushover/..., or irssi-notifier (which also works with WeeChat) to do that. It's a bit complicated because we don't run any servers (Glowing Bear is just a bunch of static files, everything happens in your browser or your WeeChat), so we can't provide push notifications out of the box. Disclosure: I'm one of the Glowing Bear devs, so I may be biased :)