Automattic invests in Matrix • Hacker News Board

Re: Automattic invests in Matrix

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Post by Arathorn » Fri, May 22, 2020, 7:58 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #103

gravitas wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I disagree with this editorialization. You have driven clicks away from the source website (content origin) over to a 3rd party entity running ads and writing their own narrative "Automattic pumps..."). uBlock has blocked 31 (actually, 38 and counting - dynamic while open - oops, up to 41 now) intrusive ads/trackers on your new link to a commercial website, and zero on the original link to the source of information.…

Generally we prefer original sources, of course ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ), but corporate press releases are special in a bad way. They tend not to contain background or interesting detail. They are written in bland PR language that surely every intelligent reader finds gross. (I'm by no means saying that media articles are great, but PR language is truly the bottom of the barrel.) Whatever…

I think the confusion might be my fault in this instance, as the author of the original Matrix.org blog post. The post wasn't a PR or written as a PR (and I hate PRs like the best of them)... but in retrospect I see that the headline and the banner image could make you think that it was. Hopefully the contents of the blogpost itself wasn't bland & gross tho :/

Ironically, the /actual/ PR for this was at the bottom of https://blog.vector.im/automattic-backs-matrix-investing-4-6... - which indeed is bland PR language, intended to convey the bare facts to journos rather than actually be read by normal folk :)

Re: Automattic invests in Matrix

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Post by Well_hello » Sat, May 23, 2020, 2:23 PM UTC

kixiQu wrote: post #102

Ebenus wrote: post #18

With E2E encryption in place by default is there any real advantage in using Signal instead of Riot client for everyday communication with my friends? Riot desktop app is definitely more polished and customizable, video quality on all of my devices also seems to be a lot better. Surprisingly the only thing that I am really missing is the ability to use custom sticker packs which got added to Signal a few months ago.

I miss Telegram's stickers like crazy. I'm going to try to contribute art once they get the feature out.

sounds awesome - I am looking forward to it

Re: Automattic invests in Matrix

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Post by Well_hello » Sat, May 23, 2020, 2:29 PM UTC

Arathorn wrote: post #64

vertex-four wrote: post #51

Every individual Matrix room is a multi-master, non-ACID database which uses its own data as security- and privacy-related configuration. Given how hard this is to get right, I'd really, really like to see Jepsen tests and a security audit done on more than the crypto aspect of Matrix.

There's a massive academic paper dedicated to Matrix's theoretical correctness (and the correctness of the Synapse implementation) going to be published in a few weeks. Wish it was already out, because it's spectacular :) That said, nobody's done any Jepsen tests yet as far as we know, but we'd really welcome them!

looking forward to that

Re: Automattic invests in Matrix

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Post by boudin » Mon, May 25, 2020, 4:47 PM UTC

Arathorn wrote: post #34

boudin wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For me the main issue is the battery usage of Riot fdroid which is way too high (i don't know if the google play version have the same issue). Last time i tried it was using more than 50% of my battery just by sitting in the background.

is this on Riot or RiotX on Android? All dev in the last year has been on RiotX, which should be an unrecognisably better app and will shortly replace Riot on Android (hopefully end of June).

Sorry, i missed you comment. It's both for riot and riotx. Reading at opened issues on riotx though it seems that the approach to solve this would be to add server side events