matrix-appservice-irc
web-7.0
matrix-appservice-irc | web-7.0 | |
---|---|---|
10 | 16 | |
457 | 108 | |
0.0% | - | |
6.8 | 7.1 | |
22 days ago | almost 3 years ago | |
TypeScript | CSS | |
Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
matrix-appservice-irc
-
Shutting down the Matrix bridge to Libera Chat
The issue in question here is https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/issues/1... (and https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/pull/133...) which accidentally regressed due to other stability work done for Libera (specifically, keeping the IRC-side connections persistent, rather than reconnecting when the bridge starts). As a result there was an race condition edge case where users on the Matrix side could read history in the IRC channel while still connecting the Matrix users on the IRC side. This was one of the straws that broke the camel's back in terms of Libera wanting the bridge disabled. The other was the confusion over https://matrix.org/blog/2023/07/what-happened-with-the-archi....
-
Disabling Matrix Portalling
As a user, this is miserable. Matrix is used as a decentralised bouncer for tens of thousands of users to access IRC (including me) and while the bridge has certainly had problems over the years (e.g. occasional delays & a recent spate of dropped messages), it's also improved loads too - e.g. with support for restarting the bridge without reconnecting all the IRC users (https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/issues/1...) and all the other stuff in https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/blob/dev....
By now requiring users to go and contact chanops to ask them to explicitly plumb IRC channels to Matrix, it's just going to waste time for chanops, precipitate weird cross-plumbing failures, or fail outright (given plumbing channels with more than 100 users has to be done manually to prevent abuse).
It's very unfortunate that it's come to this, and I can only hope that the whole "opt in with a chanmode" thing happens.
In fact, wouldn't it have been better to just ban the bridge by default, and let chanops unban it if they want people to be able to access via Matrix, rather than encourage people into the weird world of plumbing?
-
A Quick Overview of Matrix
On the Matrix side, we've put a lot of effort into being good neighbours, fwiw - e.g. recently this massive refactor at https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/pull/166... to allow the matrix<->irc bridge to be restarted without reconnecting all its IRC users (the single biggest complaint we ever had about the bridge in terms of eroding usability of IRC for IRC natives).
Sadly it looks like it wasn't considered sufficient, based on https://libera.chat/news/matrix-deportalling.
-
We are moving past legacy Freenode to a new fork
This happened right after Freenode banned IRCCloud users following IRCCloud staff statements suggesting users to migrate off Freenode and the launch of competing bouncer services.[0] Now that most channels are dead and direct users to other networks despite staff's best efforts to quell any criticism (channel migrations+topic-renaming, banning users, etc), I guess they decided to wipe everything and start over to more easily remove any references to Libera/OFTC. In fact, it removes any every reference to anything at all.
If you had a bot that directed users to the actual location of your community, you should check to make sure that it survives this migration (this was probably part of the intent).
If you use Matrix and have left Freenode channels, the IRC-Matrix appservice bridge might still be keeping you connected. To leave Freenode, send a "!quit" message to the Freenode bridge appservice user, @appservice-irc:matrix.org.[1][2]
[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210612224853/https://nitter.ni...
[1]: https://matrix-org.github.io/matrix-appservice-irc/latest/ad...
[2]: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/wiki/Bri...
-
Freenode has unilaterally taken over #haskell along with many other community channels
Matrix bridging to Libera is already functional in testing and should be announced soon, subscribe for news to this issue.
-
Element Matrix Services Launches Bridging for Microsoft Teams
It looks like they could be fixed as the bridge code is open source. For example here is an issue around messages being split incorrectly: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/issues/1...
- IRC users joining a room with no ops get PL50 on Matrix side
- Netsplit can possibly cause Matrix user becoming moderator and deop by server not getting synced
- Netsplit can cause Matrix user becoming moderator and deop by server not syncing
web-7.0
-
Debian Statement regarding freenode takeover
Absolutely ridiculous. Exactly the kind of abuse I raised concern with when the freenode policy was changed. https://github.com/freenode/web-7.0/commit/1194a3e71a427a669ccdddee22006416d46eeb43#r51255169
- Freenode policy changes allow takeover of "abandoned" channels, and racism.
- Letter to Freenode – Post Mortem of May 25, 2021
-
On Freenode, Libera, and the r/sysadmin IRC Channel
Given how, when Mr. Lee changed the policy on channels to 'allow' him to just take them over he also removed a bit on hate speech (source) I'd imagine pretty bad. He's also started insisting what's happening is an example of 'Cancel Culture' so, you know. Yikes.
-
Freenode has unilaterally taken over #haskell along with many other community channels
https://github.com/freenode/web-7.0/commit/1194a3e71a427a669ccdddee22006416d46eeb43#commitcomment-51195235
-
#emacs is on libera.chat
The new management doesn't like users fleeing to a rival network, so they've retroactively outlawed announcing channels moving to a different network by amending the rules of what's not tolerated on the network. The new rule has been enforced by a bot and can be appealed. In theory at least.
- Andrew Lee made Freenode a better place for FLOSS development
- Freenode removes hate speech rule
- Discrimination is now allowed on Freenode
- Policy Update
What are some alternatives?
teams-cli - A CLI / TUI for Microsoft Teams
circe - Circe, a Client for IRC in Emacs
papers
Vocabulary-Builder - :zap: A comprehensive vocabulary building application for both GUI and CLI users
nimb - NIMB IRC Matrix Bridge (NIMB) is a simple client tool that bridges IRC and Matrix channels and forwards messages from one to others
fastapi-with-tailwindcss - How to setup FastAPI with TailwindCSS
MatrixTexter - Easily send messages to matrix.org chat rooms via PHP
jbnc - IRC Bouncer with no registration/setup required written in nodejs with support for separate client buffers and always-on.
iamb - A Matrix client for Vim addicts
matrix.org - matrix.org public website
matterbridge - bridge between mattermost, IRC, gitter, xmpp, slack, discord, telegram, rocketchat, twitch, ssh-chat, zulip, whatsapp, keybase, matrix, microsoft teams, nextcloud, mumble, vk and more with REST API (mattermost not required!)