Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by hparadiz 1863 days ago
A good and robust bot api and useful smart widgets based on url are a must. I've had chats go from discord to matrix and then simply die after a few days.
1 comments
Arathorn 1863 days ago
Matrix's bot support should be excellent? It's arguably more robust than Discord's given it's an open API and there are tonnes of SDKs and bots building on it: https://github.com/turt2live/matrix-bot-sdk, https://matrix.org/docs/guides/usage-of-matrix-bot-sdk, https://github.com/bnjbvr/botzilla, etc.

What do you mean by 'smart widgets based on url'?

link
hparadiz 1863 days ago
Things like Spotify links turning into an embed widget.

I've used the bots api for slack and discord in a corporate environment. Compared to that the matrix api is horribly behind and unreliable.

link
Arathorn 1863 days ago
thanks; filed https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/17396 for widgets.

Not sure what problems you're seeing with the Matrix API; it's lightyears ahead of Slack & Discord in my experience, but I guess i may be getting high on my own supply...

link