Arathorn

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by Arathorn 1y ago
again, which app are you talking about? it's like saying "the web is buggy" but not saying what browser you're using. Looking at the App Store reviews for Element X at https://apps.apple.com/us/app&#
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by Arathorn 1y ago
Element X now has initial support for threads & spaces (as of last week), which were the main things missing from full parity with Element Classic.
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by Arathorn 1y ago
which app are you talking about? as per the conference keynote, there are loads of different ones now, written in different stacks without any overlapping implementations. If you're talking about the old Element Classic mobile app, the
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Matrix Conference 2025 Highlights(element.io)
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by Arathorn 1y ago
Mjolnir is designed to apply decentralised public blocklists - i.e. you pick which banlists to apply; there are a bunch published by different people (matrix.org, the matrix 'community moderation effort', etc). Admittedly moder
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by Arathorn 1y ago
> matrix was initiated by/inside amdocs. it was initiated very much by me & the UC team while inside Amdocs. > it (given that it was amdocs) was meant to be sold to telecoms to compete with OTT offerings in the 5-10 year hori
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by Arathorn 1y ago
nope, Matrix has zero code or philosophy in common with Amdocs UC (which was proprietary, centralised, unencrypted XMPP + SIP held together with HTTP). Instead, after we gave up on trying to persuade telcos to roll out OTT messaging apps b
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by Arathorn 1y ago
you may be mixing up Amdocs UC (which i ran) which was explicitly OTT-messaging-for-telcos… with Matrix, which is what the UC team did next. The point of Matrix is/was to replace the PSTN with a decentralised alt on the internet - so
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by Arathorn 1y ago
fwiw, the vast majority of Matrix encryption errors got fixed by 2024 ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHzh2Y7BABQ etc). Search on mobile (in Element X) is on its way and is making good progress: https://youtu.be
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by Arathorn 1y ago
I’m obviously biased (as proj lead for Matrix) but I genuinely think Matrix is in a good place going forwards. There’s a lot of legitimate complaints about the transition to Matrix 2.0, and trust & safety still needs a tonne of work - b
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by Arathorn 1y ago
At high level, and off the top of my head: “Signal Protocol” is a somewhat fuzzy description of whatever Signal does at a given point in time. Historically, this meant Double Ratchet, which is O(N) with the number of devices in a conversati
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by Arathorn 1y ago
Matrix has/had a great archiver at https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-viewer - but it fell foul of the bizarre failure mode that folks who had explicitly set their rooms to be archivable had subsequently forgott
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by Arathorn 1y ago
user-user authn is indeed orthogonal to client-server authz. For authenticating your own devices in EX, you are forced to verify them at login. If you have other devices flying around that aren’t verified then you have to use a different ap
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by Arathorn 1y ago
I suspect we'll end up bundling MAS inside Synapse for situations like this - trying to limp along on the legacy auth stack when stuff like 2FA/MFA/QR-login etc are all handled by MAS/OIDC will be painful.
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by Arathorn 1y ago
oh! well, that's trivial to fix.
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by Arathorn 1y ago
> The real crucial missing piece in Element X compared to Element is key/device/session/verification management and insights. Hmmmmmmm. Are you running EX against an older homeserver which doesn't have matrix-authenti
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by Arathorn 1y ago
It's possible that I'm totally missing what everyone's talking about. The design team did do a tonne of user testing on this, and this is the result. What do you mean by 'constantly collapses the filters'? I'm
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by Arathorn 1y ago
Well, I give a damn, and i'm responsible for both Matrix & Element :) I agree that it sucks that Element doesn't have the $ to support work on both Dendrite and Synapse/Synapse Pro, and unfortunately there's not been
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by Arathorn 1y ago
As I mentioned here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45377920 ), sections may well return - they just didn't make the first cut. Meta-spaces ARE duplicative though, if you already have filter buttons which do pr
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by Arathorn 1y ago
Honestly, this was the reaction I expected to have when I first started using the new roomlist (which was built by the Element design/product/eng teams, rather than the old one, which was originally written by me). However, in pra
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by Arathorn 1y ago
> Meanwhile, the company appears to have begun quietly phasing out the classic Element app I'm not sure we've been quiet about it - c.f. https://element.io/blog/element-x-ignition/ :P > it still mi
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by Arathorn 1y ago
We're actively trying to fix that - we're finally launching an official Web admin interface as FOSS (AGPL) for Synapse in the next day or two (it was meant to ship today in fact, but got blocked on a debate on how to distribute
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by Arathorn 1y ago
hydrogen (hydrogen.element.io) was built for mobile web. but all our effort goes into native mobile apps these days.
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by Arathorn 1y ago
> "An open protocol with a chance of working" One of the most depressing things about the decentralised protocol space is the adversarial attitude to other projects - whether that's Nostr v. ActivityPub v. ATproto v Nostr,
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by Arathorn 1y ago
> There's only the synapse server https://matrix.org/ecosystem/servers/ > and there's literally no way to trim data from the db in synapse or everything breaks. https://element-hq.github
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by Arathorn 1y ago
Matrix is the protocol, so doesn’t do implementations (just like w3c doesn’t do web servers any more). But the distribution from Element indeed is self-host first, and doesn’t break stuff if you’re airgapped. The paywall (such as it is) is
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by Arathorn 1y ago
(unfortunately Hydrogen is no longer being developed; nobody funded it. Instead, focus is on Aurora, aka Element X Web: https://element.io/blog/hacking-for-a-sovereign-digital-euro... etc)
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by Arathorn 1y ago
> Maybe Matrix it is then, but it’s not very suitable for airgapped company-wide deployment Element is literally built for airgapped company-wide deployments - this is precisely what https://element.io/server-suite is?
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by Arathorn 1y ago
I'm not implying they're holding it wrong - i'm explaining that we're finishing a migration from one VoIP stack to another, and the new tech is still beta, hence asking which one they're using. If you're going
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by Arathorn 1y ago
> I tried running a community on it and it was a colossal failure. I'm sorry to hear that. When was this? We have been making a huge effort to fix problems like these over the last 1-2 years (albeit focusing on workplace comms rat

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