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Great to see the progress! I really hope you can grow sustainable and profitable while facilitating Matrix. Kudos! Tulir's been doing fantastic work, but it do
by 3np 6y ago
Great to see the progress! I really hope you can grow sustainable and profitable while facilitating Matrix. Kudos!
Tulir's been doing fantastic work, but it does seem that to ~80%, all the significant bridge maintenance/development for public IM networks is a one-man show... Makes me a bit concerned that such a key piece of the Matrix ecosystem (and IMO a crucial component for eventual success) is underfunded, neglected and relying on a single person. Keeping things working with potentially hostile changes in undocumented or unsupported APIs is not trivial.
Also, how does your roadmap for new protocols look (if you have any)?
I'd love to promote this, but without LINE it's pretty much uninteresting/useless here in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. I heard it's also one of the top IM apps in other countries, like Thailand.
- Arathorn 6y agofwiw, separate to Tulir being funded by Beeper for all of his bridges, Element also funds a bunch of bridging work for the Matrix.org Foundation: IRC, Slack, Gitter, XMPP. Meanwhile there are other ones from the community (e.g. Discord). So, it's not entirely true to say it's a one-man show, although Tulir's prolificness is impressive :)