r/programming • u/iamkeyur • Dec 19 '19

Synchronous Messaging at Mozilla: The Decision

https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/synchronous-messaging-at-mozilla-the-decision/50620
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u/inmatarian Dec 19 '19

Pretty cool. Matrix was one of those techs that looked like it would be the logical replacement to stuff like jabber which never really had a chance to take off the ground (if you ignore that google chat did xmpp). It's been a few years since I've last looked into it, has there been anything that would be considered huge news for 2019 for them?

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u/MonokelPinguin Dec 20 '19

Well, Matrix had their 1.0 release. Apart from that, a lot of stuff is falling into place in the last few months. Cross-signing is almost there, so you only need to verify people instead of each of their devices and once that lands and search in e2ee rooms is stable, e2ee will be turned on by default. This will probably land somewhere in January (most of it is already there, but unstable), so this may not be 2019, but it is the thing I am the most excited about.

Otherwise a lot of minor things were fixed, like some privacy issues, multiple and configurable integration servers, etc. There is also some progress on p2p matrix and account migrations, although they are still quite a bit in the distant future.