Re:Reflections: The ecosystem is moving
by heavenlyhash on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @09:03PM
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And yet the Matrix team is doing it remarkably well.
I've been a user of Matrix for going on a year now, and they continue to roll out updates and improvements, over ALL of their platforms -- I use the android, iPad, and desktop/web apps every single day. They're also a federated service. Several of my friends run their own servers.
Some days there's a little bar across the top of my page on the desktop client that says "refresh to update your experience!" and I do. My experience updates. Everything continues to work.
Matrix has done such a good job making it easy to roll out updates that people... do.
And I can't tell you how thrilled I am to be living in a federated world. You just can't compare this to e.g. Slack. I can get friends from all backgrounds on the same system because it's so open.
The Matrix team is proof by example that federation and rapid forward motion is possible.
I've been a user of Matrix for going on a year now, and they continue to roll out updates and improvements, over ALL of their platforms -- I use the android, iPad, and desktop/web apps every single day. They're also a federated service. Several of my friends run their own servers.
Some days there's a little bar across the top of my page on the desktop client that says "refresh to update your experience!" and I do. My experience updates. Everything continues to work.
Matrix has done such a good job making it easy to roll out updates that people... do.
And I can't tell you how thrilled I am to be living in a federated world. You just can't compare this to e.g. Slack. I can get friends from all backgrounds on the same system because it's so open.
The Matrix team is proof by example that federation and rapid forward motion is possible.