Restarting the Principia Matrix Space?

There is a Matrix link on the home page that links to a page that says that the Matrix space was shut down because of issues with the (Matrix to Discord?) bridge. I don't know the details about what went wrong with the bridge, but I would like to see the Matrix space be restarted with some kind of new bridging to the Discord server. Because I really wouldn't want to have to use Discord again.

(If there is something I could help with, like taking care of running the bridge, I'm willing to do so... to the best of my abilities)

I'd be more than happy to see the Matrix space being revived.

Some more details about what happened with the previous attempt: We used the Matrix<->Discord bridge bot service from T2bot, which runs on matrix-appservice-discord. The reliability of it was terrible, with messages being delayed sometimes up to half an hour or dropping entirely, one way or the other. During this time there an incident that occurred with the bridge itself that made all channel associations disappear (this was not related to us), and shortly after that it ran a bit smoother but began to again slow down again as people reregistered with the bridge.

The space was open for about a year and in that time the only one who had ever participated from over the bridge was basically me, there were a few others from the Discord server who had joined the Matrix space but as they would also be solely active from the Discord side I considered it to be entirely unused. Which wouldn't be a problem if the space actually had a functional bridge, but with the state it was otherwise in I just decided put it out of its misery.

With that said I do need to mention that the issues we had with it are more or less out of T2Bot's control - it is one of the most used of their bot services and Matrix simply does not scale at all to a bot of its size. The general recommendation in their Matrix room is basically that if you can at all help it, host your own bridge instead.

But hosting the Discord bridge appservice means running your own Matrix homeserver with Synapse which is extremely heavy to run, there is other Matrix server software in varying stages of incomplete one can try and see if they are compatible. I don't know if there is any alternative bridge that one can host that does not require a homeserver to host it on, this page only lists ones that do.

If you're willing to just take care of this (and it is a lot of responsibility to host a Matrix homeserver), then it would be much appreciated. You can contact me privately and we can get things sorted out to invite it to the Discord server as well as setting up new rooms in the space (which still exists, but is empty).

Thank you for the detailed answer. I wasn't sure whether I should have contacted you immediately but I'll reach out shortly.

My suggestion for bridge hosting that I'd be going with is Matterbridge. AFAIK it does not need a Matrix homeserver, which should be good for me to host without too much worry. It can do a lot more than just Matrix and Discord, but that is likely what would work the best, IRC is too basic. I have some hardware I can stuff somewhere to run it on hopefully.

We ended up getting Matterbridge set up over the evening and now the Matrix space is back again thanks to Luna. The Matrix link on the index page of principia-web takes you to the space again. :)