matrix-appservice-discord VS matrix-bot-sdk

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

If you're fine with discord and matrix having access to new content, you can use a bridge such as https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-discord with a homeserver or use https://t2bot.io/discord/ (unreliable, sometimes laggy) to automatically copy new messages to both.

To be clear, I don't mean this as an attack, you already deserve huge respect for developing free software, but if you really want to try other options for the whole "community infrastructure" I think you will find some pretty good ones. For example in your case you could explore mirroring your GitHub repo on Codeberg or Gitea, then making a Matrix bridge to your Discord server.

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 management to sync all of the rooms initially, and keep them in sync with any changes. I'm going to wait before that's implemented before suggesting that we try bridging Discord and Matrix for my friend group that's stuck on Discord.

Hopefully this doesn't come across as negative, I still use and love Matrix myself. All I want for Christmas though is to have one communication app in my life that talks to everyone everywhere effortlessly :)

I don't have discord and matrix via element is better anyway. Are you guys interested in opening a room or bridging it to discord?

If the choice would be Matrix, a bridge between Discord and Matrix could be used (https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-discord).

https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/97673 is already known, however looking at https://github.com/Half-Shot/matrix-appservice-discord it seems, upstream did the last commit 8 months ago.

github.com/Half-Shot/matrix-appservice-discord

Be careful though. Discord is known to ban accounts that use unofficial clients. The bridge mentioned (matrix-appservice-discord) uses the official bot API so should be relatively safe.

> Mattermost and most open source chat tools not Google searchable.

This seems like a good idea for a bot built with https://github.com/turt2live/matrix-bot-sdk (which is very easy, I've used it for a few small projects).

The SDK has a callback for each new message - you could just put it into a DB and then render to static text.

Matrix's bot support should be excellent? It's arguably more robust than Discord's given it's an open API and there are tonnes of SDKs and bots building on it: https://github.com/turt2live/matrix-bot-sdk, https://matrix.org/docs/guides/usage-of-matrix-bot-sdkhttps:..., etc.

What do you mean by 'smart widgets based on url'?