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@@ -8,16 +8,19 @@ Basically, Matrix becomes your everything chat client! **WARNING** Easybridge is still very experimental and crashes sometimes. -Current backend status: +Current protocol status: - IRC: text messages only (private messages and public channels). Has bugs, most notably: messages will be duplicated if several users connect to the same channel. - XMPP: text messages only (private chat and MUCs), no backlog, no avatars, no file transfer. - Mattermost: in quite good shape. Private & group conversations with text messages and attachments (images or other files). Handles retrieving of message backlog, user avatars and room avatars from the server. - Facebook messenger: in quite good shape, handles private messages and groups, text messages, attachments, stickers, profile pictures (low res only), backlog. Sometimes disconnects from the server and messages stop arriving. +Adding a backend shouldn't be too hard if a Golang library exists to connect to that protocol. +Easybridge can also spawn an external process to communicate using a certain protocol if no Golang library +is available (this is currently used by the Facebook Messenger backend which is written in Python using the `fbchat` library). + Current features: -- Backends: IRC, XMPP, Mattermost, Facebook Messenger (more to come) - Handles private chats (one-to-one conversations) as well as group chats (sometimes called channels, multi-user chats, or chat rooms) - Automatic setup of Matrix rooms that bridge to outside rooms - Room name and topic synchronization (partially) |