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

Why HN readers recommended it

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

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Matrixdotorg

Topic

matrix protocol

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

2

HN mentions in dataset

8

Recommendation years in dataset

2023–2024

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From the original HN conversations

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• 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 …

• 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] …

• 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 …