We’ve been running an IRC gateway from Matrix to Freenode almost since day 1 – originally it was a simple perl bot written by tm604 using Net::Async::Matrix; later it was rewritten by LeoNerd to be a bit more modular, and nowadays it’s a full IRC/Matrix Application Service written in Node.js by Kegan. Up until the … Continue reading The matrix.org IRC bridge now bridges all of Freenode!