> Spaces effectively gives us a way of creating a global decentralised filesystem hierarchy on top of Matrix - grouping the existing rooms of all flavours into

> Spaces effectively gives us a way of creating a global decentralised filesystem hierarchy on top of Matrix - grouping the existing rooms of all flavours into an epic multiplayer tree of realtime data. It's like USENET had a baby with the Web! For anyone only casually following Matrix, it's important to remember that it's not just a chat system. It's a distributed, eventually-consistent store of ordered data. That store just happens to primarily be used for chat at the moment. I'm personally very excited about where this technology could go. The federation, consensus, and organizational technologies underlying Matrix the chat app are very general and have tons of potential. Thanks to the whole team! Spaces is definitely a welcome feature. I have plans to experiment with it to see if we can use room hierarchies as a way to enable posting and discussing software patches.