Arathorn

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by Arathorn 4y ago
The flaw in your reasoning is that Matrix is like the web, and Element is like a browser. Just as mainstream folks don’t say “go look at my Chrome site”, but are smart enough to say “go look at my website with your web browser”, the same go
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by Arathorn 4y ago
(dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32468864 )
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by Arathorn 4y ago
Basically: we haven’t been able to just stop Synapse dev because there are tonnes of people using it, and it’s ended up being a mature solution in the end. So we switched emphasis on Dendrite to be for embedded homeservers instead. Once Den
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by Arathorn 4y ago
Element Android’s UI performance problems are thanks to using Realm as a single source of truth and then calling it synchronously rather than async - this is being fixed currently irrespectively of sliding sync or element x etc. For fast re
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by Arathorn 4y ago
So “worlds” in Third Room are simply glTF scenes which are sent as a file into Matrix - so in theory anything which can export glTF can author them. We’re putting together pipelines/tutorials to do high quality exports from Unity and B
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by Arathorn 4y ago
Totally agreed in all of the above. The redesign which is about to land on Element iOS & Android fixes room list ordering, fixes floating action buttons, and could turn on bubbles by default for DMs. Meanwhile Jitsi is about to get repl
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by Arathorn 4y ago
> What I would like to see is for Matrix Decentralized Identity to be able to be used as a SSO for other sites. We haven’t figured out how P2P Matrix will work with authentication yet - it’s kinda ironic that for normal Matrix we are mov
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Are We OIDC Yet? Moving Matrix to OIDC(areweoidcyet.com)
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by Arathorn 4y ago
Have you ever considered that your constant FUD against Matrix just ends up hurting open communications in general? How about putting your energy into improving XMPP rather than constantly whining about the existence of Matrix. Matrix is pr
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by Arathorn 4y ago
Matrix servers store the conversation history for their local users. The message contents (for e2ee rooms) are e2e-encrypted. The metadata (which user sent it where and when and to who) is not currently encrypted or obfuscated. We'r
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by Arathorn 4y ago
because users generally own more than one device.
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by Arathorn 4y ago
This is how 1:1 calls have worked in Matrix since 2015 - predating even Vector/Riot/Element.
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by Arathorn 4y ago
Well, it's 'great support' in that i use it as my daily driver instead of Jitsi without problems. The spec is indeed still in proposal, and it's currently being integrated into Element Web/iOS/Android. Meanwh
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by Arathorn 4y ago
Speaking as project lead for Matrix: Matrix is not an attempt to reinvent XMPP, plus we had extensive XMPP experience before creating Matrix (running 10M+ user ejabberd deployments; writing XMPP clients based on Smack, XMPP.Framework and St
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by Arathorn 4y ago
(moxie’s blog post was actually a direct response to me mailing him to ask if Signal would ever consider speaking Matrix)
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by Arathorn 4y ago
> The Matrix model is extremely similar (they have "MSCs" instead of "XEPs", and they regularly release versioned documents This isn’t strictly accurate. Matrix’s MSCs are effectively proposals to update Matrix’s mono
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by Arathorn 4y ago
Matrix has great native support for voip/video, including conferencing: https://element.io/blog/introducing-native-matrix-voip-with-... etc.
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by Arathorn 4y ago
https://github.com/progval/matrix2051 might be what you’re after
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by Arathorn 4y ago
fwiw Element added video rooms (and shortly voice rooms) the other week: https://element.io/blog/drop-in-drop-out-chats-with-video-ro... We’re improving glitchiness & perf.
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by Arathorn 4y ago
> I'm still waiting for the EU to enforce at least some degree of inter-compatibility between chat apps. I'm tired of switching between FB Messenger, Instagram, Discord, Slack, Signal, Whatsapp, Matrix and whatnot. Well, it&#x2
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by Arathorn 4y ago
You can fiddle this option on your homeserver: https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/usage/configurat... Or if you don’t have a homeserver, invite all your users to a space so you can see them there. Id
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by Arathorn 4y ago
In Element Call, yes. In Jitsi (the current impl), no.
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by Arathorn 4y ago
We're going for a hybrid SFU/MCU architecture - c.f. https://2021.commcon.xyz/talks/extending-matrix-s-e2ee-calls...
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by Arathorn 4y ago
It's literally impossible to tell whether the two issues you've linked are the same as the one you're complaining about unless you submit logs and your own bug so we can triage to see why your client is slow.
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by Arathorn 4y ago
I'm guessing it's about 1-2 months away. The hard bit is that we need to effectively have Element Call share the same matrix client as Element itself does, in order to embed Call into Element effectively. We call this matryoshka
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by Arathorn 4y ago
Yes, we already have spatial audio working in Element Call (see https://element.io/blog/element-call-beta-2-encryption-spati... ) - so this will come automatically when video/voice rooms in element start using Elem
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by Arathorn 4y ago
> You better pray and hope that Element does not introduce a crypto wallet, just like what Signal, Session, Keybase has done. That is not going to happen.
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by Arathorn 4y ago
The current video rooms implementation is powered by Jitsi, which optionally exposes E2EE for clients which support it (Element Web on Chrome and possibly Safari) via insertable streams and megolm crypto from Matrix. It isn't hooked i
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by Arathorn 4y ago
Have responded at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32093491 .
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by Arathorn 4y ago
Element Desktop shouldn't freeze, hang or be extremely slow on an account with large numbers of large rooms. My personal account is in around 4000 rooms which span around 500K users, and it's completely usable on Element Desktop

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