The initial plan was to develop further bridges but since a lot of the community were already focussing efforts there, the Matrix.org team set me alternate tasks I could choose from. I was given the task to develop a way for Matrix to be indexable by search engines, as Riot.im is a really heavy React application that is not crawler friendly, so a client which had no client side scripting was desired. I was also tasked with squashing bugs and some substantial changes or fixes in riot-web, outlined below. The reason this was needed is that riot-web (riot.im) is a very heavy React web application, and the Google crawler simply is unable to index it.
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