Articles tagged `#bridges`

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Twitch IRC explained: connect any IRC client to Twitch chatTwitch chat is IRC, so your existing client can join it — server irc.chat.twitch.tv on port 6697, your Twitch name in lowercase, and an OAuth token as the server password. The settings for every client, where to get the token now that the old generator is gone, and how to bot it.

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Bridging IRC and Discord: a working config, and the two settings everyone missesKeeping a project on IRC without losing the people who only use Discord takes about fifteen lines of TOML. The complete config, the privileged intents that make it fail silently, and why a user account gets you banned.
Bridging IRC and Matrix: what still runs in 2026The software is fine; the hosting is what keeps collapsing. Which networks you can still join from Matrix without running anything, why Libera.Chat's bridge died, and how to choose between matrix-appservice-irc and Heisenbridge if you host your own.
Bridging IRC to Discord, Matrix, Twitch and everything elseWhich bridge to use for which platform, which ones have quietly died, and the etiquette that applies to all of them. Plus the one platform that needs no bridge at all: Twitch chat is IRC.
Matterbridge setup guide: one binary, sixteen protocolsMatterbridge relays messages between IRC and Discord, Slack, Telegram, Matrix, XMPP, Mumble and a dozen more. Install it from the community fork — not the stalled original — and the config is one TOML file with three kinds of block.