Comment by Arathorn

The IRC bridge shouldn’t restart that frequently (and we’re in the process of decoupling the irc connectors from the bridge itself so we can fix bugs in the bridge without bouncing all its connections). Membership should categorically be synced correctly - if you ban a Matrix user on IRC their Matrix side should be kicked out too. If not, it’s a bug and we need to know the details asap. The only scenario I can think of here is if the matrix server was lagging on handling traffic, but that shouldn’t cause a desync like this either.

For bifrost; we used to run one on matrix.org but temporarily stopped due to lack of ops bandwidth. There’s a community one somewhere though - come ask in #bridges:matrix.org about it