Matrix

Sadly, due to the poor state of the matrix community, and synergy matrix server specifically, we are unable to continue providing IRC bridging and matrix federation services. Our matrix server is shut down, and we are looking in to other options. At the time of it's death our synapse server was using 100gigs of ram, 600gigs of (mysql) storage and all the IO our poor dell raid server could muster just to keep up with traffic. This is INSANE for a mostly text chat architecture. No possible procedure was available for trimming event history to clean it up. Synapse is a dead end. Element client has been abandoned and Element-X remains mobile-only and half-finished. We give up.

Matrix provided a glimpse of a possible future where chat was not corporate owned and self-hostable but with modern features. Sadly, the Element company started by claiming to be community-oriented IRC bridged and friendly. Now that they got the network-effect of collecting users from IRC and other platforms, they don't care about us anymore; only about government contracts and their own pay-for-service hosted instance of matrix.

We miss its modern features and image/pastebin integration a lot.

AfterNET is working on getting ZNC available to all users again. In addition, some of us have had success with weechat and weechat-android and its “relay” capabilities. It is hard to set up and not as friendly to use, though. Stay tuned.