Telegram Bridge Migration

[Nate Graham]

On 5/14/21 2:19 AM, Kenny Duffus wrote:
> Hi
> 
> TLDR: If you are an admin in one of our channels you could help ease the migration by inviting @kdetgadmin to the channel and making them an admin with the power to add admins
> 
> As some of you will be aware we have for a while been planning to migrate from our current IRC based Telegram bridge to a much more feature-full Matrix based bridge, kindly provided by Element Matrix Services on our matrix homeserver. The main feature being that on IRC and Matrix you will be able to talk to "real" users representing those on Telegram, media is also bridged better now
> 
> So instead of messages going matrix<>irc<>telegram they will now go irc<>matrix<>telegram
> 
> I have been slowly migrating a few channels over the last couple of weeks as we tried to iron out any issues
> 
> To enable and manage this we need to have admin in the telegram channels, some of you will have seen requests for this by myself, @sealne, and or @kdetgadmin
> 
> As part of running the bridge we now have a KDE Telegram Admin account (@kdetgadmin) that owns the bridge bot and also should have admin in any of our community Telegram Channels. This will minimise the bus factor risk in the future as well. Channel owners may also wish to give channel ownership to @kdetgadmin as well to give us as a community additional protection. @kdetgadmin will have a similar role to the KDE_GC user on freenode irc network going forward
> 
> Thanks for your help
> 

Thanks so much for doing this, Kenny. It's hard to overstate how 
dramatically better the new bridge is compared to the old one. I've been 
able to move to Matrix full-time and leave all the Telegram rooms I was 
in before.

Nate