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matrix-spec

The Matrix protocol specification

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What it is

The Matrix protocol specification

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Where it is used

No documented product use was verified in the last source check.

What people are saying

I love the concept behind the Matrix protocol, but I have zero faith in the Matrix Foundations ability to execute. Folks have been asking for financial tranparency for years…

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 11:19:25 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year17 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2022-10-07 15:29:06 UTC to 2025-11-20 06:51:00 UTC.

024682022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 1 submissions, 7 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC817
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404

What Hacker News says

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timokoesters·Dec 5, 2024
I'm the author of the spec issue this blog post is based on: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/852 In my implementation for the Conduit Matrix server, the /sync order is used for everything. The timeline is just one list that grows on one end for incoming events and on the other end for backfilled events. I think it's important that the message order does not change, because that's very difficult to communicate to the user.
In Message order in Matrix: right now, we are deliberately inconsistent

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