matrix-appservice-discord VS matrix-docker-ansible-deploy

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.

Check out https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/

As some others have said, matrix is great at this.

I use this ansible playbook to set it all up: https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy it supports slack and discord too.

You can also use beeper which is hosted if you don't want to self host. They employ one of the major bridge Devs so they know what they're doing.

There's also element one from the Devs of matrix but they don't support all services you're looking for.

Exactly yeah, I used this bridge with this playbook

Check the ansible instructions first: https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/tree/master

matrix-docker-ansible-deploy looks like a good way to go.

You could maybe check out this URL about setting up Oracle free tier but it could be outdated. I just recommend using the Matrix Ansible Playbook

I installed my home server via the ansible playbook, gave myself admin privileges and then enabled the api in the playbook. The playbook sets up the server with a reverse proxy and im geting an error 'NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource' when i enter in my credentials.

Yeah sorry I was on mobile when I wrote that so I didn't have it to hand.

Here it is: https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy