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Node.js IRC bridge for Matrix

29 mentions on Hacker News by 16 people: 3 stories, 26 comments · first 2015-11-02 · latest 2025-10-21

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  1. …and still months away. The appservice-irc bridge has this issue which is more of a question: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/issues/1... which hasn't been answered. These are keeping our space on an earlier version.
    comment by TheCycoONE · 2025-10-21 · in Matrix Conference 2025 Highlights
  2. I believe the bridges should host a proxy (per-bridge) to expose content: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/pull/180...
    comment by Arathorn · 2024-11-26 · in This website is hosted on Bluesky
  3. 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…
  4. …the bridge was actively maintained... Any hope to ever have things like this properly considered? https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/pull/146... https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/pull/137...…
    comment by 3np · 2023-07-03 · in A Quick Overview of Matrix
  5. …and channel membership. [1]: https://twitter.com/AsahiLinux/status/1581103659013722112 [2]: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/releases... > it's also improved loads too The very room used to discuss the Matrix bridge…
    comment by progval · 2023-07-03 · in Disabling Matrix Portalling
  6. …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-ir…
    comment by Arathorn · 2023-07-03 · in Disabling Matrix Portalling
  7. …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…
    comment by Arathorn · 2023-07-03 · in A Quick Overview of Matrix
  8. …again, you lose your ident if your nickname contains uppercase characters or underscores: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/issues/1...
  9. …so at least IRCCloud users could see/write them, but are not interested in supporting them for now: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/pull/150...
    comment by progval · 2022-11-24 · in IRCv3 2022 Spec round-up
  10. …83 [1]: https://matrix-org.github.io/matrix-appservice-irc/latest/ad... [2]: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/wiki/Bri...
  11. …[1]: https://matrix-org.github.io/matrix-appservice-irc/latest/ad... [2]: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/wiki/Bri...
  12. Sure - https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/pull/130... is the PR, which links to related ones. It’ll be deployed when, uh, libera.chat give us permission to run a bridge, assuming they do.
    comment by Arathorn · 2021-05-20 · in Welcome to Libera Chat
  13. …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...
  14. ▲ 1
    IRC users joining a room with no ops get PL50 on Matrix side
    story by susam · 2021-03-27 · 0 comments
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    Netsplit can cause Matrix user becoming moderator and deop by server not syncing
    story by susam · 2021-03-26 · 1 comment
  16. You could use an IRC Bridge https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc As for direct access from the command line, I don't know.
    comment by lukeramsden · 2020-09-30 · in Gitter is joining Matrix
  17. Plugin? Bridge? https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/wiki/Bri...
  18. It's being worked on: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/issues/7...
  19. …since Gitter is pretty horrendous on web and especially mobile. [0] https://matrix.org/bridges/ [1] https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/wiki/Gui...
  20. …https://matrix.org/docs/guides/types-of-bridging.html • https://matrix.org/docs/projects/bridges • https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/wiki/Bri...
  21. …scrollback, then it's (again) unfortunate that nobody has cared enough about this to file a bug on https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/issues to request configurable retention per bridge. Meanwhile,…
    comment by Arathorn · 2018-12-26 · in The Matrix.org 2018 year in review
  22. …room at a given time, and who can see what message. I think the actual bug you're talking about is https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/issues/2... , which boils down to the fact there is a race when the bridge starts up…
    comment by Arathorn · 2018-12-25 · in The Matrix.org 2018 year in review
  23. …one I ran into was running an irc server that would be compatible with the matrix irc bridge, see https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/issues/2...
    comment by daurnimator · 2017-07-20 · in TCP BBR congestion control comes to GCP
  24. …I really don't think that collides with IRCv3's aspirations, and we're looking forward to updating https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc with IRCv3 features as they land. We're also looking forward to IRCv3 stuff to add to…
  25. …IRC networks, including freenode and OFTC. The closest thing to an official list that I've seen is https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/issues/2... .
    comment by rhblake · 2017-01-17 · in Easy XMPP: What are we doing here?
  26. ▲ 1
    Matrix-IRC bridge v0.4.0 has been released
    story by okket · 2016-08-15 · 0 comments
  27. …to go federate/matrix together all the existing silos out there). Current bridges include: * IRC ( https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc ) * Slack ( https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-slack ) * Verto (…
    comment by Arathorn · 2015-11-02 · in Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects
  28. …context of a slack-alternative, matrix is definitely the one to look at. Also has an IRC bridge: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc As for XMPP, I think it is still entirely viable as an alternative to using a brand new…
  29. …support client side). [ed: Matrix also have some support through bots/plugins for IRC bridging: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc ]