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Matrix 2.0 — How we're making Matrix go voom!

Matrixdotorg · 16K views · 2023-02-07 · 48:45

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Overview

A FOSDEM 2023 talk from the Matrix team on Matrix 2.0, covering sliding sync, the Element X client rewrite and next-generation calling. It explains how Matrix aims to match the speed of proprietary messengers.

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HN threads link it as the primary source for Matrix's performance claims and sliding sync improvements.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2023–2024

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Networking & internet infrastructureDistributed systemsLinux & open-source ecosystems
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Tmpod · 2023-07 · Recommendation

Matrix 2.0 will put an end to that trait plaguing the protocol's viability. With the new "sliding" sync, clients will be able to fetch stuff much more efficiently (and more akin to Discord's API, for example) than before. Syncing an freshly logged-in account takes seconds instead of minutes and syncing messages when returning to the app is instant. They presented this at FOSDEM this year: [VIDEO]

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Arathorn · 2023-02 · Recommendation

If you watch the video, you'll see that we're making the client-server protocol crazy lightweight ( [VIDEO] ) and that we're adding the ability to remove servers entirely and go full P2P: ( [VIDEO] ). So you're working on stale data here. (Also, only about 35% of users we're aware of are on the matrix.org server, not 99%...)

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Arathorn · 2023-02 · Recommendation

Fixing this has been the primary focus of the core Matrix team over the last year - we revealed the end result at FOSDEM a few weeks ago, and it literally improves performance to be better than Telegram/Discord/Slack or anything else we've benchmarked against: [VIDEO] If you're feeling adventurous, try develop.element.io and enable Sliding Sync in Labs, and you should get instant login, sync, and orders of magnitude better performance (but it is definitely beta). You may need to run your own SS proxy, for which we published a guide yesterday: [LINK]

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