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The Matrix.org Foundation @matrix.org · 1d

🇪🇺 Don't miss Alexander Smolianitski's talk at The Matrix Conference where he'll share how to create a more integrated, secure & sovereign European digital landscape
🎟️ Greb your ticket before we run out!

conference.matrix.org/register

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The Matrix.org Foundation @matrix.org · 2d

Details below ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Matrix Conference 2025

🗺️ At Kaleidoscoop, Strasbourg, France
📆 From Oct. 15 to 19
📧 Volunteer [email protected]
[m] Join our Matrix room matrix.to#/#events-wg:...

Matrix - Decentralised and secure communication

You're invited to talk on Matrix. If you don't already have a client this link will help you pick one, and join the conversation. If you already have one, this link will help you join the conversation

https://matrix.to/#/#events-wg:matrix.org

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The Matrix.org Foundation @matrix.org · 2d

Have you ever wanted to be a spaceship captain, turning knobs and sliding switches, while gauges get filled and diodes blink, against a free ticket?

The Matrix Conference looks for volunteers to take ~1h shifts operating cameras & mixers!

Details below ⬇️⬇️⬇️

A picture of two professional cameras taken from the bottom. Next to it, the title: "Call for Volunteers".

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The Matrix.org Foundation @matrix.org · 5d

The Matrix Conference around the corner, an encrypted state events prototype, and Element Admin. That and more happened This Week in Matrix!

matrix.org/blog/2025/10...

This Week in Matrix 2025-10-03

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Element @element.io · 8d

🚀 We’re pleased to showcase the work of our summer intern, Skye, who made a big impact with their work on encrypted state events.

The blog post breaks down the project in detail.

element.io/blog/hiding-...

Hiding room metadata from servers

Every year, Element takes on a small number of summer interns to work on various research and development projects. Internships are a significant part of our culture, and ~20% of the current Element e...

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The Matrix.org Foundation @matrix.org · 8d

Open source and federated systems are all about collaboration. But collaboration is not chaos. Come listen to DINUM's Mathieu Velten at the Matrix Conference, explain how it opens its private federation to a select few, securely!

🎟️ Tickets: conference.matrix.org/register/

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The Matrix.org Foundation @matrix.org · 12d

Distributions on our website, on-demand Trust & Safety bots, a new connectivity tester. That and much more happened This Week in Matrix!

matrix.org/blog/2025/09...

This Week in Matrix 2025-09-26

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The Matrix.org Foundation @matrix.org · 19d

The Matrix Conference schedule published, the Matrix hackathon streak continues for another week, and the spec 1.16 release - this and more happened This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2025/09...

This Week in Matrix 2025-09-19

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The Matrix.org Foundation @matrix.org · 21d

We've just released v1.16 of the Matrix specification! Extensible profiles, room version 12, and more are now part of the specification.

Read all about it (and what's next up in spec-land) on the blog: matrix.org/blog/2025/09...

Matrix v1.16 release

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The Matrix.org Foundation @matrix.org · 26d

The results of a 2 day hackathon (1 hour of demos!), an official Matrix server for the European Commission, and the Trust & Safety Working Group in Motion.

That and much more happened This Week In Matrix

matrix.org/blog/2025/09...

A YouTube thumbnail for Matrix Live. The Title says "How Hard Coul It Be? A two-day Element hackathon". It's the 12th episode of the 11th season.

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The Matrix.org Foundation @matrix.org · 26d

Would it be a Matrix event without one of our State of The Union keynotes?

Don't miss your chance to come at the Matrix Conference and listen to our Guardian Matthew paint the picture of the Matrix landscape!

conference.matrix.org

A portrait of Matthew Hodgson next to the title of his talk: The Matrix State of the Union, that he will give at The Matrix Conference.

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The Matrix.org Foundation @matrix.org · 28d

That bug is talking about the room getting corrupted due to state resets (i.e. the issue that matrix.org/blog/2025/08... addresses) rather than problems in actually upgrading the room? Upgrading should be okay, especially now there's a room version (v12) which is less vulnerable to resets.

Project Hydra: Improving state resolution in Matrix

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The Matrix.org Foundation @matrix.org · 28d

Well, that shouldn't happen. What server/client is it? Can you share the room ID before/after?

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The Matrix.org Foundation @matrix.org · 28d

In theory, upgrading should be fine: we recently published a tutorial at matrix.org/docs/communi... which should help step through the process. However, if things go wrong we're more than happy to help jump on it.

Room Administration

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The Matrix.org Foundation @matrix.org · 29d

Having two passwords can be confusing! Andy will walk us through why you need 2 passwords in Matrix, and how we can do better with non-technical terms and metaphors.

Don't miss his talk at #MatrixConf2025!

conference.matrix.org

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The Matrix.org Foundation @matrix.org · Sep 4

Benjamin is an active member of the Rewrite in Rust task force, and he wants you to know how you can make your Matrix app go voom 🦀

Don't miss his talk at the Matrix Conference in October 15-18!

conference.matrix.org

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The Matrix.org Foundation @matrix.org · Sep 4

In our defence, only ~30% of the known network use matrix.org, and the rest continued working fine - there is no dependency on matrix.org.

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The Matrix.org Foundation @matrix.org · Sep 3

nope; different physical boxes. things went on the primary while rebuilding the secondary after its RAID failed.

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The Matrix.org Foundation @matrix.org · Sep 3

best bet by far is matrix.org/support/ - afraid we don't have beer tiers yet :)

Support Matrix

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The Matrix.org Foundation @matrix.org · Sep 3

Right, matrix.org is back online as of 17:00 UTC. The server is struggling a bit as it catches up. Huge apologies again for the outage; postmortem + ways to avoid a repeat will be forthcoming. See also www.theregister.com/2025/09/03/m... & www.heise.de/en/news/Matr.... Thanks all for your patience.

Matrix.org

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The Matrix.org Foundation @matrix.org · Sep 3

Status update: we've restored the 55TB snapshot and subsequent incremental backups, and are about to replay the remaining traffic since the backup. There are still several unknowns, but if things go well the matrix.org instance should be back in 3-4 hours.

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The Matrix.org Foundation @matrix.org · Sep 3

Status update: we’re 47TB through restoring the 55TB db snapshot of the matrix.org DB, but then have to rebuild the DB and replay the subsequent 17h of DB traffic, which will take several hours. Thank you for your patience, and apologies once again for the outage.

Matrix.org

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The Matrix.org Foundation @matrix.org · Sep 3

pretty sure our PDS is bsky.social and pretty sure it has more than one user, and if it went down our account would be hosed. whereas in Matrix, about 70% of the network are on their own instances, many of which are indeed single user servers.

Bluesky

Social media as it should be. Find your community among millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again.

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The Matrix.org Foundation @matrix.org · Sep 3

not for long :)

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The Matrix.org Foundation @matrix.org · Sep 2

with Matrix your homeserver is your very own… home server too. Matrix isn’t centralised; it’s just one server (one PDS, in bluesky terms) which is down. (Would have thought ATproto fans would be familiar with how irritating it is for folks to push incorrect assertions about decentralisation…)

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