Travis Ralston

The world needs secure comms as a bulwark against authoritarianism and oppression. Matrix seeks to meet that need, as a decentralised, encrypted protocol. But Trust & Safety is difficult in a decentralised environment. How are we building a safer Matrix? matrix.org/blog/2025/02/b…

Been thinking a lot about @hankgreen and @soFISHtication's "Wetris", and I think it's "just" a matter of noodle tetris? Could be a fun coding challenge.

Matrix 1.11 is here with authenticated media! 🎉 Our own homeserver will be rolling this out quickly – watch the blog for news. In the meantime, developers are encouraged to update as soon as possible. Read the release announcement for full details ➡️ matrix.org/blog/2024/06/2…

@JanSedlon @eliasnogueira @CamKemDev I've found it useful for students to better understand client/server architecture. It's not the ideal method, but knowing what happens behind the scenes of that CI action (even roughly) is important for troubleshooting eventual issues in deployment.

@eliasnogueira @CamKemDev It is useful, but it should absolutely NOT be taught as a preferred method nor recommended

Kids, this is how we deployed apps in monolith applications not too long ago...

Matrix v1.9, our end-of-year maintenance release, is hot off the presses with clarifications and bug fixes 🗞️ More excitement to come as work continues on major projects and long anticipated features in v1.10 and beyond. Read all about it on our blog: matrix.org/blog/2023/11/2…

Hello, world! You, me, and the Foundation: a letter from the Managing Director, @joshsimmons, and reactions from leaders at other open source foundations. matrix.org/blog/2023/10/2…

Today is a big day: we're excited to welcome Josh Simmons as the first Managing Director of the Foundation! 🎉 This is a big step toward realizing the Foundation's role as a neutral steward for Matrix. Learn more: matrix.org/blog/2023/09/i…

Matrix 1.8 is here! Largely a maintenance release, we're excited this release includes room version 11 and sees another 9 MSCs formally adopted into the spec 👏 Learn more about this release and what's on deck for 1.9 in the blog post: matrix.org/blog/2023/08/2…

Matrix 1.7 is out now! It's got reactions (finally 💖), better mentions, async uploads, and a whole lot more. Check out the blog post: matrix.org/blog/2023/05/2…

We’re part of an open letter asking the UK government to rethink the Online Safety Bill to protect end-to-end encryption and respect privacy. Read the letter here: element.io/blog/the-uks-o…

This is so incredibly cool.

@element_hq "The bill takes a wrecking ball to the very fabric of encryption, by requiring encrypted messaging apps to scan for abusive content within the app... providing a mechanism that can be hijacked and abused to access arbitrary user data." @ara4n @element_hq #OnlineSafetyBill #e2ee

The UK’s Online Safety Bill has good intentions, but the proposed legislation is remarkably poor. It’s proposing state surveillance and censorship. It needs to be ripped up and started again. element.io/blog/the-onlin…

Big news: Gitter is officially ascending entirely into Matrix: we’re migrating the historical Gitter service into being a Gitter-branded Element in Feb 2023. We’ve migrated all the historical accounts & data, so it should be transparent: read all at blog.gitter.im/2023/01/16/git…

A more meta post on *how* I do research before writing a Matrix Spec Change: patrick.cloke.us/posts/2023/01/…

@jackadanos @matrixdotorg conveniently, custom emoji is actually something I'm hoping to get added to the spec soon. Keep an eye out on TWIM - it should follow Extensible Events landing. Not sure when Element will pick it up though ;)

@turt2live @matrixdotorg It's back up for me now! P.S. if you have any sway over the features added to Element, custom emojis would be epic 😎

We’re investigating an HTTP outage on matrix.org; apologies for the inconvenience…

@jackadanos @matrixdotorg We're working on that too. Thanks for reporting!

@matrixdotorg Hey, looks like it's more than just the website. Chat has been down for an hour now!

I published my research on Matrix's read receipts & how they impact notifications while putting together the MSCs for threads. Not sure if it is useful to others, but was encouraged to put it somewhere! patrick.cloke.us/posts/2023/01/…

also, 1 day off from its anniversary :) github.com/matrix-org/mat…

When writing this back in 2020, I spent far too much time looking into characteristics of how snowflakes fall if translated to a 2D space. Turns out a sine wave with differing frequencies/amplitudes works just as well.