Two things re the Matrix rooms Mark set up: Last night, I was able to connect to element.io via the invitations Mark sent. There were two rooms: initially we were talking on nmglug, but then we moved to a different room, nmglug-room. But today, I can log in but it's only showing me nmglug, not nmglug-room. Also, I don't find the web interface very usable and wanted an alternative. I'm already using bitlbee to follow Twitter as a tab in hexchat, and it turns out that libpurple can talk to matrix and there's a bitlbee plugin for libpurple. It was surprisingly easy to set up: On Ubuntu I ran sudo apt-get bitlbee-libpurple restarted bitlbee sudo service bitlbee restart then in the &bitlbee tab, typed the two lines from https://wiki.bitlbee.org/HowtoMatrix : account add matrix @username:matrix.org password account matrix on and it logged me in to matrix and gave me a new tab with the nmglug matrix room. ...Akkana