Feature request: fallback representation of stickers so it can be sent to IRC (and potentially others)

[Fuchs]

As per discussion on IRC: there seem to be sticker support in Matrix / some matrix clients (e.g. Riot) now, but these are not shown on the IRC side at all.

It would be nice if either some alt text representation (e.g. :sadfox:) is sent, or an URL to the actual picture, maybe best both (so it's visible at a first glance what was sent, and for details you can open a link)

Otherwise people communicating via bridge might miss out on information, as some people take stickers as actual messages (e.g. a thumbs up animal sticker when a suggestion worked as expected)

Steps to reproduce: connect to a room from both IRC and Riot, send sticker from Riot.

What happens: nothing is seen on IRC at all

What should happen: IRC people see that a sticker was sent

[Half-Shot]

So at the moment stickers are just comprised of an image, and a "body". The body is a plaintext description of the image so the best we can do for representation is:

Half-Shot * sent a sticker "Playing a game" (https://matrix.org/_matrix/media/r0/download/matrix.org/foobar)

[PeterCxy]

To me this seems really important, especially when bridging more than one chat services all through Matrix, e.g. Matrix and Telegram and IRC. When most of the services support stickers, only the IRC side see nothing at all, making a lot of information lost on the IRC side. I'd say sending something is better than sending nothing, even if it's just the description.

[htdhnsdjetsr]

I would also be interested in seeing the sticker image forwarded to the irc channels

[Mikaela]

In case it's of interest, IRCv3 idea on the subject is at ircv3/ircv3-ideas#14

[TomTheDragon]

Any updates on this?
We recently started using this bridge and since our matrix rooms are also bridged to Telegram, this feature is really missing.
How about just showing the sticker like an normal image in IRC?