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> How do we prevent mirroring loops without the `_zulip` suffix? ! I forgot about that. I suppose I can just exactly match the bot nickname.
@timabbott added the fix in the 3rd commit.
My testing worked because I was coincidentally using a nick that ends with "_zulip". Now it is no longer the case and still works.
@timabbott comment addressed.
Commits squashed. I looked at https://github.com/zulip/zulip/blob/master/templates/zerver/integrations/irc.md. It looks fine and doesn't recommend Matrix at all. Even the sentence at https://github.com/zulip/zulip/blob/master/templates/zerver/integrations/matrix.md recommends the direct IRC mirror.
IMO, we should instead advice people to use Matterbridge, if they only want to mirror only to 1 topic in Zulip. I have seen the Matterbridge in action in julialang.zulipchat.com,...
@timabbott ping
@PIG208 thank you for the review!