I can't pronounce this name even after trying a few times.
this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2026
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If you're British you can just say continooity. American English speakers have to say contin-uwu-ity :3
Damn furrys... stupid, sexy furrys... ~/pf~
Waiting for the next fork: Contin-ara-ara-ity
Im German. English is not my first language.
I've been trying to get this running for days, but I've had no luck. I follow the install instructions and when I get to the last step of actually starting the service, it fails, seemingly because there's some issue with the config file that I can't figure out. I was hoping this would be a good alternative for ESS Community, which I had no luck with either.
You aren't UwUing hard enough during the install.
That tracks. I've never actually uwu-ed before, so I didn't know how hard to go. 😂
I'd recommend joining https://matrix.to/#/#continuwuity:continuwuity.org for support
I guess I'll have to make a Matrix account elsewhere to join the support room so I can make a Matrix server of my own. 😅 Thanks for the link! Hopefully they'll be able to help me figure out the issue.
I tried to set it up the other day and failed as well. Looking at their docker-compose examples for reverse proxy, there are a lot of environment variables not included in their original example. After adding all those variables, the container started with a message about first registration.
I haven't tested more than that yet.
EDIT: Added it to my reverse proxy and was able to create the first account via Element.
What's your use case justifying the pain and suffering of self-hosting Matrix?
I can't take this project name seriously. Like it's made by weebly pimply teenagers or tweens.
Victor, named after the Latin word for "winner", spends his time tearing apart "conduwuit" and "continuwuity", yet his own name sounds like a teenage brag: "I'm the victor, so I must be right". /s, but to me, that's what your comment reads lime
Alright, bro. I didn't pick my own name.
Read what you will into whatever, it's just my personal opinion.
Sorry, but I find it immature of you to judge a book by its cover.
Fully within your right. First impressions matter.
It's a successor to conduwuit, so the name checks out 🤷
What do you mean it checks out? That's just as immature of a project name.
Well, it's consistent.
I honestly have seen worse, like czkawka, which means hiccup in Polish, and it's good to know because I have to check for the make on a translator every time I need to use it. Great application though.
Consistency doesn't cancel our the immaturity for me, sadly.
Anyone running this that wants to comment on the stability? I am using synapse/ap on my test container and was wondering if this is worth keeping a closer eye on..
I run Continuwuity since day zero, actually since Conduwuit. Works great, super stable and very lightweight.
Seconded. I believe I went Conduit → Conduwuit → Continuwuity. Very happy with it!
We have over a thousand active deployments. We've got bugs, but we're working on them. I'd suggest joining our community rooms :3
One downside I found of Continuwuity was no SMTP setup for password resets, or new user registration.
That is being worked on as you write :3
Awesome to hear!
Without Synapse migration it's sadly still hard for longer established servers to migrate/impossible.
i was just thinking the same
synapse is good enough though