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Matrix Retiring the Slack Bridge by January (matrix.org)

submitted 2 months ago by King@blackneon.net to c/technology@lemmy.zip

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Bridges are one of the reasons Matrix is called Matrix: let’s matrix all the networks together! They are key to onboard new users into the network. However, maintaining and operating bridges, in particular to closed, proprietary platforms, is expensive: they need to be kept up to date with any change made by the platform on a regular basis and they’re fiddly to keep up and running.

The Matrix.org Foundation has been hosting a free of charge Slack bridge for users of the matrix.org server for several years. The code of the bridge belongs to the Foundation, hosted under its GitHub workspace, but the bulk of the maintenance was done by Element. Maintaining and operating bridges to closed, proprietary platforms such as Slack comes at a high cost, both financially and in terms of reliability as they are subject to change without notice. The bridge has been unmaintained for some time now, and this has led to degraded functionality and inconsistent performance for users. While we understand that some people still find it useful in certain cases, it is not right to continue providing a service that we know does not meet the standards expected of matrix.org.

This is why, without enough customers paying for it and despite the efforts of the community trying to help, Element will not continue to maintain this bridge. As a result, the Foundation will no longer provide this service to matrix.org users. We want to thank Element for all these years of graciously maintaining a bridge for us.

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[–] Cooper8@feddit.online -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In my dumb naive optimistic brain bridges are the perfect kind of software to be automatically developed, revised, tested, and updated by AI agents.

Two sets of rules with written documentation (API), translate request from one to the other, validate message sent and message received, if not revise and test again.

Realistically, I know this would likely hit a brick wall quickly, but it sure seems like if AI driven software development is getting actually practical this type of thing should be on the easier end of the spectrum of possibilities.

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 1 points 1 month ago

The Problem is that proprietary offerings don't give you a real API and you need to find a creative way to extract the data out of them and they try to close those ways to do it and the cat and mouse chasing game is quite expensive and AI just isn't good enough yet to adapt that quickly.