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https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/228... is the thing to track.

comment by Arathorn · 2022-06-02 · in We don't show typing status

…The first cut is plain Slack-style threads, but we have MSCs for zulip/twist style threads like https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/283... which will get built out as soon as we can. Fun fact: the design for Element’s…

comment by Arathorn · 2022-04-23 · in Introducing Threads in Beta

Are there still plans for Zulip-style threads? https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/232...

comment by brunoqc · 2022-04-23 · in Introducing Threads in Beta

…note something we're looking very forward to is: [WIP] MSC3401: Native Group VoIP Signalling #3401 https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/340... Which seems to be a focus for 2022: https://element.io/blog/introducing-nativ…

comment by dngray · 2022-04-12 · in Privacy-Respecting Software

Take heart: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/357...

comment by hpfr · 2022-03-07 · in Libli, tiny Matrix client for building public libraries

If you read https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/blob/mat... it becomes apparent that the 'eventually consistent' part of Matrix is more of a hindrance in this case. Also 'the more federation and interoperability the better'…

comment by zaik · 2022-03-05 · in Native Matrix VoIP with Element Call

…proposal works. I don't think tools that implement this exist in the XMPP ecosystem at all. [0] https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/blob/mat...

comment by kitkat_new · 2022-03-05 · in Native Matrix VoIP with Element Call

…for this UX, with the `m.intent` field used when you instantiate an `m.call` within a room ( https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/blob/mat... ): * `m.intent` to describe the intended UX for handling the call. One of: 1.…

comment by Arathorn · 2022-03-05 · in Native Matrix VoIP with Element Call

…the gitter acquisition, Element should consider acquiring a certain voice-focused company ;) ** [1] https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/blob/mat... [2] https://community.teamspeak.com/t/teamspeak-5-beta-bug-repor...

comment by GeckoEidechse · 2022-03-05 · in Native Matrix VoIP with Element Call

…Right Thing without having to install anything. Moreover, because it's built on Matrix, MSC3401 ( https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/matthew/group-... ) means that we'll finally have decentralised cascading video/voice…

comment by Arathorn · 2022-03-05 · in Native Matrix VoIP with Element Call

Something we're trying to do about this on the Matrix side is MSC2716 ( https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/matthew/msc271... ) - the ability to import archives of existing content into Matrix, and thus 'lock it open' and…

comment by Arathorn · 2022-02-12 · in Discord is a black hole for information

by 'broken links' i guess you mean https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/3628 ? it's a bug on the new spec website; we're working on it.

comment by Arathorn · 2022-02-03 · in Matrix v1.2 Specification

…were more transparent about what they can't store and what they can store but is not storing. [1] https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/2318

comment by up6w6 · 2022-01-29 · in Wire is now on F-Droid

This is an accident of history and will eventually be corrected: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/2678 . It is certainly not intended that new features are unencrypted, but unfortunately sometimes it happens in order for…

comment by feanaro · 2022-01-29 · in Wire is now on F-Droid

…a close eye on JMAP, which operates in a fairly similar space to our new 'sliding sync' protocol ( https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/kegan/sync-v3/... ). We would love to adopt JSCalendar & JSContact in Matrix if they are good…

comment by Arathorn · 2022-01-19 · in Show HN: Matrix-CRDT – real-time collaborative apps using Matrix as backend

…experimenting with APIs for traversing a DAG of objects overlaid within Matrix's room DAG (e.g. https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/kegan/msc/thre... - which isn't really about threading specifically, but could be traversing any…

comment by Arathorn · 2022-01-19 · in Show HN: Matrix-CRDT – real-time collaborative apps using Matrix as backend

…in UTF-8, so the author must be talking about custom ones. Which Matrix still does not have: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/1951 - I don't think doing what PGP does is really impressive, but okay, fine, one point. - Matrix…

comment by caslon · 2021-12-31 · in How Telegram Messenger circumvents Google Translate's API

…just a matter of time before we get a decent UI that can compete with the existing platforms [1] https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/3440

comment by up6w6 · 2021-12-28 · in Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects

…3189 [1]. It is just a draft for now. So expect it to be shipped to clients in 3-6 months(?) [1] https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/3189

comment by your_challenger · 2021-12-23 · in This Year in Matrix

…you have any objection to us trying to use it as a decentralised Matrix SFU, as per the design in https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/matthew/group-... ? (Obviously we'd do so within the constraints of AGPLv3).

comment by Arathorn · 2021-12-16 · in How to build large-scale end-to-end encrypted group video calls

There is open-issue here: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/2615 and custom implementation: https://github.com/turt2live/matrix-oauth

comment by ushakov · 2021-11-16 · in Sign in with Matrix

We are actually working on fixing the password sending issue, see for instance https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/3262 Of course, untrusted clients can do all kinds of evil things after having authenticated. (And also clients…

comment by driminicus · 2021-11-16 · in Sign in with Matrix

An example of resolving conflicts is something like MSC2962 ( https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2962 ) and MSC3216 ( https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/3216 ). Two proposals to solve the same problem, different ways.…

comment by Arathorn · 2021-11-10 · in Telegram Ad Platform

…to approaching Signal-like privacy and there's not been much progress on them unfortunately: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/1769 https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/11655 https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/i…

comment by ajvs · 2021-11-04 · in Notes on privacy and data collection of Matrix.org (2019)

…started working on the PAKE thing, I actually kludged together something similar in my own client: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/3265

comment by cvwright · 2021-10-22 · in Let’s Talk about PAKE (2018)

yup. the plans are at https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2962 and an alternative proposal at https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/3216

comment by Arathorn · 2021-09-29 · in Spaces launch in Element

…graph effectively in the form of their decentralised ACLs (i.e. PLs etc). You could group MSC2313 ( https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2313 ) reputation lists into a space hierarchy though to curate them though... and assign…

comment by Arathorn · 2021-09-28 · in Spaces launch in Element

…and it lets you embed arbitrary web UI into a Matrix client. MSC1236 is the base proposal ( https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/1236 ) which Element implements, and there are a stack of other proposals on top of it which need…

comment by Arathorn · 2021-09-28 · in Spaces launch in Element

…And there is a Matrix Spec Change going in the direction of Discord-like voice chat rooms! ( https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/matthew/group-... , and in particular https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/matthew/group-...…

comment by thibaultamartin · 2021-09-28 · in Spaces launch in Element

In this case, the parent spec change for Spaces was MSC1772: Matrix spaces ( https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/1772 ). You may also want to look into MSC2946: Spaces Summary ( https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2946…

comment by callahad · 2021-09-28 · in Spaces launch in Element

…[3]: https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/index.html#module-serv... [4]: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2787

comment by rnhmjoj · 2021-09-09 · in Matrix? No, Thanks

…is working on making identities portable, that is, not tied to a particular MXID and domain. See https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/neilalexander/...

comment by feanaro · 2021-09-02 · in Conduit Beta – Matrix chat server

Expiring messages were proposed but are not in the Matrix spec yet, see https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2228 Message notifications work in Conduit. Another thing I forgot to mention is that Conduit only supports room versions…

comment by timokoesters · 2021-09-02 · in Conduit Beta – Matrix chat server

…OAuth 2 to Matrix by default so your server is the one that auths you, rather than a random client: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2964#issuecomm...

comment by Arathorn · 2021-07-28 · in Show HN: A web-based matrix client: Cinny

Yup, I believe this is the latest proposal: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2836

comment by auscompgeek · 2021-07-28 · in Discord Launches Threads

…a content-addressable object store API with a distributed content-addressable file system back end. https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/travis/msc/ipf...

comment by cvwright · 2021-07-27 · in Element raises $30M to boost Matrix

Thanks :) Also, another improvement to protect metadata that we're working on is https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/rav/proposal/r... (and relatedly https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/neilalexander/... ). By giving…

comment by Arathorn · 2021-07-27 · in Element raises $30M to boost Matrix

That's not possible yet, see this proposal https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/neilalexander/...

comment by karmanyaahm · 2021-07-27 · in Element raises $30M to boost Matrix

That's not possible yet, see https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/neilalexander/...

comment by karmanyaahm · 2021-07-27 · in Element raises $30M to boost Matrix

I've filed https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/3290; unfortunately this is a spec issue (the current spec mandates that any 401 error is treated as the server telling the client to do a hard logout. i propose it should do a…

comment by Arathorn · 2021-07-21 · in Germany's national healthcare system adopts Matrix for communication

…know their signing key back from when they were on line. The longer term solution for this is https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/rav/proposal/r... which includes the sender's public key in the event (by making it the sender's…

comment by Arathorn · 2021-07-21 · in Germany's national healthcare system adopts Matrix for communication

…for whatever thing you wanted, like a new low-bandwidth transport using CoAP and CBOR (MSC3079 - https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/3079 ) and it may or may not end up being accepted into the core spec, but the MSC exists…

comment by miloignis · 2021-06-25 · in XMPP vs. Matrix

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story by alohapersona2 · 2021-06-01 · 0 comments

…- we started writing the decentralised reputation stuff in earnest last week. https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/3215 has some more details.

comment by Arathorn · 2021-05-26 · in Freenode ops take control of 700 channels

…rooms seem to have users from other servers. 3. Account portability/multihoming is in the works at https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2787

comment by Arathorn · 2021-05-22 · in “Setting the record straight on Freenode” [pdf]

…Matrix.org as far as I would trust Microsoft. Ouch. Did you read https://matrix.org/foundation or https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/matthew/msc177... ? I'd agree that skepticism was warranted if we hadn't split out the…

comment by Arathorn · 2021-05-19 · in Welcome to Libera Chat

https://matrix.org/blog/2020/12/18/introducing-cerulean has some details - and https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2326 and https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2836 are the two spec proposals underlying it.

comment by Arathorn · 2021-05-19 · in The Matrix Space Beta

Sorunume suggested just + then later Alch-Emi made the case for just #. https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/1772#discussio...

comment by zamadatix · 2021-05-19 · in The Matrix Space Beta

That would be https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2312 , which is merged and registered with IANA and coming to a web browser near you real soon now.

comment by Arathorn · 2021-05-19 · in The Matrix Space Beta

…think it was a member of the community who proposed just using plain # aliases - hard to tell given https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/1772 is so heavily commented that it crashes if you expand the comments :/

comment by Arathorn · 2021-05-18 · in The Matrix Space Beta