I don't think anything's happened to Matrix, it continues to develop and grow at what, at least as it feels to me, a slow and steady pace. I tried it towards th

I don't think anything's happened to Matrix, it continues to develop and grow at what, at least as it feels to me, a slow and steady pace. I tried it towards the beginning, after a few years, and am currently on it again, running my own homeserver, and it's been getting better and better each time. It's definitely still got a few rough edges, but it's both much more reliable and much more fully featured than in the past. E2EE is finally very easy on the flagship clients, which is a pretty great achivement on an open federated system. Anyway, I think it's still here and growing, but it pops into the HN consciousness every now and again. That doesn't mean it's popularity is similarly varied :)