Migrate Matrix community to Spaces

[OmeGak]

Element release last Friday finally switched on Spaces and hid Communities. This means that our Matrix community appears hidden to everyone using an up-to-date version of Element.

Let's:

• [x] Figure out how to self-host a Space in https://matrix.bonfire.link
• [x] Add all Discord bridged rooms in the Space.
• [x] Federate room/space list so that people can search us.

Related:

• [ ] https://github.com/bonfirelink/infrastructure/issues/14

[Sakrecoer]

To convert a community to a space in element:

• Log in to the account that is admin for the community
• go to settings > preferences > flip on "Display communities instead of spaces"
• click the three dots (...) that appear when hovering a community > View community
• on the page displays you will see a message box:
• Click the link "here", set the options and hit "create space"

Voilà!

[Sakrecoer]

To self-host a space:

• Add an address to Local Addresses for the space in the space-settings > Visibility.
• Set this new address to be the main address

Note: the user doing this needs to be a local user on the server-address being created and an admin of the space (i.e. admin @user:matrix.org can only add addresses for matrix.org while @user:bonfire.link can only add addresses for bonfire.link

[Sakrecoer]

For reference, matrix.bonfire.link is currently not federating it's room/space list. In Synapse to enable this use: allow_public_rooms_over_federation: true in your homeserver.yaml file

[OmeGak]

Thanks for the hints @Sakrecoer! I just migrated the community and here's the link to join the Space: https://matrix.to/#/#bonfire.link:bonfire.link.

For reference, matrix.bonfire.link is currently not federating it's room/space list.

I will look into this tomorrow!

[OmeGak]

Missing rooms added on the space.

For reference, matrix.bonfire.link is currently not federating it's room/space list. In Synapse to enable this use: allow_public_rooms_over_federation: true in your homeserver.yaml file

Done too!