New To IRC, What Is Matrix?
reddit / irc

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Hayden4126 · 2019-06-16 16:46

I am new to IRC and I keep hearing about Matrix.

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Saber_UK · 2019-06-16 17:00

Matrix is a different chat protocol which has an (incredibly broken)
IRC bridge.

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Hayden4126 · 2019-06-16 17:17

That makes sense. Thank you! I am kinda new to IRC, do you have any
tips for beginners?

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EuAndreh · 2019-06-16 19:29

Why is it incredibly broken? I've seen no issue with it so far.

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Saber_UK · 2019-06-16 20:31

It splits constantly, it can silently desync and just stop bridging
messages between the IRC server and the Matrix server, it can bridge
services across networks allowing easy abuse, users with certain
characters in their nicks just can't have their messages (private or
channel) bridged at all, if a client gets parted on the IRC side
without the Matrix bridge sending a PART (e.g. via /REMOVE) it will
desync membership status, it will explode on servers with ASCII
casemapping and users using {}[]~^ in their nicknames, and many more
issues.

I have it banned from my freenode channels because its just so broken.

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magolamagola · 2019-06-17 02:23

follow the white rabbit

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thewhiterabbit06 · 2019-06-25 14:09

Let's go!

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[deleted] · 2019-06-27 00:42

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Hayden4126 · 2019-06-27 02:26

What's this?