Matrix protocol for chat

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This is in @mcwumbly and @lindsey’s court, the update from Dave still stands:

I hear you frustration here, you want this built, you feel it would be awesome and it is amazing to see @joshsimmons here.

Last time when I tested the alpha version with @dan the protocols made it very very rough to get stuff working.

What we wanted?

  1. Add site.discourse.org to an Element matrix client
  2. Start chatting

What we happened?

  1. User mapping and user spaces were very complicated to reconcile
  2. Needed a bunch of custom proxies
  3. No easy way to just “add a site” to the Element client

The effort died down sadly cause Dan no longer had time to work on this. I am not sure that what we have here is a money problem. It’s more of a people problem, we need somebody capable of delivering here that understands both matrix and discourse really well. These people are extremely rare.

I guess a big question for @joshsimmons is, “is the dream even technically possible”? Maybe some people from Matrix side can help with where the protocol is at.

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