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ircv3-ideas
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Matrix 2.0: How we’re making Matrix go voom
> "At least as standard" how?
There are 8 people who vote on changes to the Matrix spec (the Spec Core Team), 7 of which are Element employees (including Matthew, Element's CEO). Element also controls the development of clients and servers used by the large majority of users in the public federation.
> A substantial portion of the IRC comunity is actively hostile to the IRCv3 extensions, and in some cases prefer incompatible implementations of the same functionality; Matrix has nothing like that going on.
But any IRC client will work fine on any IRC server, and they can connect to various servers with different implementations.
On Matrix, clients (generally) can only connect to one homeserver at a time; which forces them to converge on following exactly the same spec. And if your server differs ever so slightly from the other ones in how it implements some parts of the spec (room consensus), then it can be split-brained from the rest of the federation. Instead, changes to the room consensus are done by pushing new room versions, and each server implementation needs to explicitly support it or they can't join it. This means Synapse devs (which are a majority of Element employees) get to decide what room versions can get traction.
It is not uncommon for people in the Matrix community to complain about this and Element keeping specs in limbo, and PRs to the flagship clients being stuck in "design review tar".
> And there seem to be more visibly independent implementations of Matrix than IRCv3.
Clients, maybe, at least in the number of implementation. It's hard to find stats of this, but I feel that >95% of people in the public federation use Element even in tech-y rooms; IRC has a healthier mix of major clients (weechat, irssi, IRCCloud, Hexchat, KiwiIRC, The Lounge each have >5% of desktop/web users). But I admit that's just my very subjective point of view.
In terms of servers, Matrix has three open source ones as far as I know: Synapse (controlled by Element), Dendrite (controlled by Element, and almost on par with Synapse according to https://arewep2pyet.com/ ), and Conduit. Based on https://gitlab.com/famedly/conduit/-/milestones/3 , Conduit seems to be far from implementing the spec yet (eg. it doesn't seem to support leaving rooms or respecting history visibility).
> things like: server-side history extensions tended to mess up my client's history implementation (I'd end up with multiple copies of the same messages in my local logs, often with the wrong timestamps)
You can use https://ircv3.net/specs/extensions/message-ids to deduplicate them.
> And if you're in a conversation where people are using embedded gifs, then fundamentally you'll always be a second-class citizen if you're trying to participate in that with a client that can't display embedded gifs.
A conversation where people where people are using embedded gifs will exclude me regardless of client, because they are too distracting. At least on IRC I can expect people not to do it too much, and use words or emojis instead of reaction gifs.
> SSO access control; you just can't do that in a nice way if the client doesn't support it
That's a fair point; IRC is made by hobbyists more than companies, so that's not surprising. There is some discussion around it though: https://github.com/ircv3/ircv3-ideas/issues/74 and Sourcehut is sponsoring implementation (https://emersion.fr/blog/2022/irc-and-oauth2/).
- Ergo – modern IRC server written in Go
element-meta
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Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers
https://github.com/element-hq/element-meta/issues/339#issuec... is another facet, too.
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Matrix 2.0: The Future of Matrix
It's quite disappointing that there's huge ongoing work around reinventing clients from scratch where the basic functionality of not ringing all my devices while I'm using only one of them [1] is still not there (bug open for years), despite it being a pretty simple fix.
[1] https://github.com/vector-im/element-meta/issues/360
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Self hosting Rocket.chat
Basically element / matrix was supposed to be a replacement for Discord but it's missing a lot of the polish. I've been hosting an instance for a year and I haven't really seen any notable improvements. There's no GIF keyboard after almost 8 years, large rooms take forever to load history, you can't play videos directly inside of a link preview, read receipts don't always work, etc. Basically just open source jank. Overall though I really appreciate the fact that it's entirely self contained, open source and the federation part is nice.
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Matrix 2.0: How we’re making Matrix go voom
Scalar (the integration manager) is not open source [1] (though there was some effort to reverse-engineer its protocol [2]); and some of their anti-abuse scripts aren't public [3]
[1] https://github.com/vector-im/element-meta/issues/260
[2] https://github.com/turt2live/matrix-dimension/blob/master/do...
[3] https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix.org/issues/557
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Notifications only for subscribed threads?
Since I didn't hear much here I added it to the GitHub ideas. https://github.com/vector-im/element-meta/discussions/984
What are some alternatives?
The Lounge - 💬 Modern, responsive, cross-platform, self-hosted web IRC client
element-x-ios - Next generation Matrix client for iOS built with SwiftUI on top of matrix-rust-sdk.
element-x-android - Android Matrix messenger application using the Matrix Rust Sdk and Jetpack Compose
telegram - A Matrix-Telegram hybrid puppeting/relaybot bridge
convos - Convos :busts_in_silhouette: is the simplest way to use IRC in your browser
element-ios - A glossy Matrix collaboration client for iOS
znc-push - Push notification service module for ZNC
ircv3-specifications - IRCv3 specifications | Roadmap: https://git.io/IRCv3-Roadmap | Code of conduct: http://ircv3.net/conduct.html
rust-synapse-compress-state - A tool to compress some state in a Synapse instance's database
Oragono - A modern IRC server (daemon/ircd) written in Go.
matrix-docker-ansible-deploy - 🐳 Matrix (An open network for secure, decentralized communication) server setup using Ansible and Docker