Arathorn

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by Arathorn 1y ago
room versions are just a much-needed way of versioning the protocol, so we can make breaking changes without being trapped with backwards compatibility problems - no different to a fileformat including a version number. it’s one of the best
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by Arathorn 1y ago
All I did was to DM you to ask you to not post screenshots of the CSAM spammer’s activity, as it amplifies their spam and gives them a platform which further encourages them by giving them attention and a reaction. This should not be remote
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by Arathorn 1y ago
This has been due to a very persistent spammer attacking the public network. Since adding policy servers ( https://matrix.org/blog/2025/04/introducing-policy-servers/ ) as a way to preemptively block conte
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by Arathorn 1y ago
Dev on EXI has been focused on: * event cache, to speed up room load and provide offline support. this was a huge amount of “invisible” work. * media browsing - swiping between images, using the event cache * fixing voip integration * loads
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by Arathorn 1y ago
I assume this is https://github.com/element-hq/element-x-android/issues/4880 . Obviously push should be reliable on Android; on Element X iOS it’s rock solid these days. I’ve escalated the issue internally (it
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by Arathorn 1y ago
Matrix supports both; when you're trying to get Matrix deployed on someone's domain it's a crapshoot on whether they have permission to write to .well-known on the webroot (and if they do, the chances of it getting vaped by a
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by Arathorn 1y ago
Matrix is a protocol, and it supports screensharing both on legacy VoIP and newstyle MatrixRTC group e2ee calling. Most Matrix clients (eg Element) support screensharing - one exception is Element X on mobile, which can view but not share.
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by Arathorn 1y ago
> Would you say that implementing a flakey feature in the first place was a bad idea? I'd think that once users get dependant on a certain feature (no matter how lacking in its usefulness), it's going to be tougher for them tak
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by Arathorn 1y ago
> View from 1000 feet: maybe a way to lock a room's users would be interesting? That's a really interesting idea - having immutable memberships could be a good band-aid. The problem is that right now the fact that room members
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by Arathorn 1y ago
Element One should support MAS + EX in the next 2-3 weeks. Mozilla's EMS hosting got migrated over yesterday (at last) 60% of the rest of EMS-hosted servers are also migrated already. Sorry it didn't happen earlier, but all our fo
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by Arathorn 1y ago
We disabled it on matrix.org because it was being used for 2FA SMS fraud, costing us $$$K, and we didn't want to burn time building an anti-fraud system. Getting access to everyone's phonebooks is also a privacy risk (even if you
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by Arathorn 1y ago
https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/254... is the de-facto way that custom emoji are done today, but as you can see from the labyrinthine Matrix Spec Change, it still needs some work to g
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by Arathorn 1y ago
which features are you actually missing? the only gap now is threads (in beta), spaces (in final design) and widgets (which were very very rarely used). the whole "i can't use X until it has precisely the same featureset as Y&quot
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by Arathorn 1y ago
> I finally gave up on it realising it is (and now it seems was never even planned to be) a communication tool for the "masses" or end users - you know - you, I and our friends and family... kind of. Matrix has always intended
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by Arathorn 1y ago
Room membership is still determined by the server rather than the client - but we now warn the user and freeze the room if devices which are not signed by their owner are present in the room. Constraining the user membership to be controlle
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by Arathorn 1y ago
$50 says that this is yet another instance of the failure-mode explained in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44392479 .
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by Arathorn 1y ago
Right - this matches my hunch; that folks want to define groups of users (which you can already in Matrix in 'spaces', but the UX in most clients is awful) - and what they really want is group-based permissions (which isn't p
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by Arathorn 1y ago
> - Notification center is now gone. It's still there; it just got moved into Labs given it never worked in encrypted rooms, and having a flakey feature for new users was (correctly) considered worse than not having a feature at all
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by Arathorn 1y ago
There's also a really great Gtk client called Fractal from GNOME; it uses the same matrix-rust-sdk as Element X: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/fractal . Meanwhile the plan for Aurora (Element X Web) is to run it i
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by Arathorn 1y ago
> Which is mobile-only. Element's UX on desktop is still a joke. Actually, we span up Element X on web a few weeks ago and are currently figuring out how to transplant EW's view layer (which is fine) onto matrix-rust-sdk (which
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by Arathorn 1y ago
One of the big problems is that folks judge Matrix based on the legacy Element apps, which have now been succeeded by Element X: https://element.io/blog/we-have-lift-off-element-x-call-and-... etc. Element X kicks ass
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by Arathorn 1y ago
What would you say the delta is between Element's current video-rooms and Discord-style voice-rooms (if you go and mute video for everyone), ooi? The only reason Element hasn't implemented precisely the same UI as Discord is beca
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by Arathorn 1y ago
matrix encryption reliability should be fixed (at least on element x/web + synapse combos) as of Sept 2024. what server & client are you using?
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by Arathorn 1y ago
agreed, lack of account portability in Matrix is a pain. we’re working on it in msc4014 and I expect to see some progress this year.
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by Arathorn 1y ago
when you say “Matrix’s UX is clearly worst”, what app are you talking about? Element X is similar if not better to Signal in terms of UX for instance.
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by Arathorn 1y ago
speaking as project lead of Matrix: i’m not aware of a general problem affecting dropped notifs. mine are fine on matrix.org on element x ios for instance. are you using unifiedpush on android on a ntfy server which is rate limiting notifs
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by Arathorn 1y ago
yes; matrix has improved significantly - eg Element X is an unrecognisable improvement over the old Element app.
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by Arathorn 1y ago
fwiw, this came up on lobste.rs yesterday and I responded to it there with my Matrix.org project lead hat on. TL;DR, the original post is spectacularly and depressingly false. https://lobste.rs/s/vqsran/matrix_is_c
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by Arathorn 1y ago
For Element, I suspect they'd be best off using Element Server Suite ( https://element.io/server-suite ) which are the official helm charts for Element, Synapse and the various component parts. To scale elastically they
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by Arathorn 1y ago
One thing that Matrix does do well is scale. The matrix.org homeserver handles around several million monthly active users, and rooms can scale up to hundreds of thousands of users (although things currently get a bit sluggish if there ar

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