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Thank you! I am optimistic that we'll pull through. And yes, I think you're right to be a bit worried about how frequently we need to ask people if they've tried Matrix recently. F…

Yeah the post is new but we've been steadily ramping up investment in Trust & Safety the whole time I've been leading the Foundation :) Having added a couple moderators to the team…

Might be worth revisiting, we've seen great improvement in the last year :) I use Element X as my mobile daily driver, and use Element Web on my laptops. Feel free to ping me if yo…

This couldn't be further from the truth. The Matrix.org Foundation is expanding open governance, with a Governing Board that has representatives from all across the ecosystem: http…

Because a raw dump of expenses obscures many important details, and sets people up for misunderstanding things and reporting them out of context. I'd love to get to a point of radi…

You can trust that if there's anything obvious we should be doing, we are already doing it :) And I'm pleased to report that Automattic is one of our biggest sponsors.

Following up, we at Matrix.org have put out a blog post to clarify that this is unrelated: https://matrix.org/blog/2024/12/unrelated-cybercriminal-netw... Grateful to NL Times who …

Coincidentally when I logged in to my account, for the first time in years, they also pulled my reviews. I got one email for each of them, saying: "Our moderators evaluate each rev…

As the Managing Director of the Matrix.org Foundation I can assure you I'd love nothing more than to displace centralized, proprietary communication tools. It just so happens that …

We definitely have work to do on the onboarding experience, but I'm pleased to say that there are 115M addressable users on the open federation – so many people are having great su…

Likewise, glad for these discussions. Even if it's a bit uncomfortable to be on the receiving end, this kind of feedback is a gift. Please do share more about your experiences, we'…

Thanks for continuing to give Matrix a try! There are rough edges, for sure. I'm excited to hear what you think the next time you give it a spin – your experience is valuable feedb…

Element != the Matrix.org Foundation. Element relicensed Synapse. The Foundation is running a fundraiser. I'm a little confused about your comment "AGPL for me, but not for thee." …

Hey, thanks for sharing your concerns. I think we need to start right at square 0: Element is not the same as the Matrix.org Foundation, and the Foundation has not had layoffs or a…

Thanks for your enthusiasm for Matrix! We're at a critical point in its evolution, but there's a lot of reason to be hopeful and excited about the future – and we'll be digging dee…

Thanks for noticing :) Doing my best to make sure everyone who is invested in these things gets the information they want and need.

Thank you for your work in the Matrix ecosystem, and for your support!

Check your facts. Matrix remains an open protocol, under open source license, with open governance, stewarded by a nonprofit. And there remain multiple open source server implement…

As the Managing Director of the Matrix.org Foundation it is expected that I conduct myself with some level of decorum. So, exercising all due restraint, I say this: your statement …

I really appreciate you sharing your concerns, and for all the hope and energy you've put into Matrix to date. Very much to your point, we're not yet in a state where I recommend M…

That is definitely a thing that Matrix has, all the more so because it's a decentralized protocol and many deployments federate with each other.

I suspect many people _did_ find other ways to connect (indeed I fired my IRC Cloud subscription back up...), but that's not what ultimately brought us* to this decision. Really it…

There are a number of open source events, projects, and foundations that primarily communicate on Matrix, and no surprise it seems particularly common among projects that build on …

Hi there! Managing Director of the Foundation here. First, yes, the response times have not been great, though of course that's all been on the basis of volunteerism. Now that ther…

Hi there! I'm the Managing Director of the Foundation. That owing balance is down to the many services for which we rely on Element. The Foundation has a Master Services Agreement …