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Bridges, bots, and other tooling requested by community members
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Integration into web forum software #163

Open homebeach opened 6 years ago

homebeach commented 6 years ago

There are many kinds of Internet forum software. What if matrix functionality would be included into forum software? For example when you create a new thread you could choose "Connect thread to Matrix". Then you could choose Matrix room where the thread will be bridged. Then you can read and post to the thread in Matrix.

Perhaps some GPL licensed forum software could be first modified to have support for Matrix.

homebeach commented 6 years ago

Issues #40 and #41 are probably related to this.

IngwiePhoenix commented 4 years ago

Synapse supports Authenticators written as Python modules. If the forum software's config was written in either minimal PHP - to use a custom parser - or a different config format like JSON, it would be possible to read in those configs and authenticate against the existing database, thus creating a login-backed integration. Adding an URL to the forum itself or other kinds of stuff (i.e. matrix.to links to send PMs or such) would be another topic in itself and depending on the forum software.