Automattic, founded by the creator of WordPress and developing the WordPress.com platform, to the company , created in 2017 by the key developers of the Matrix project. New Vector oversees the development of the main Matrix client and maintains the hosting of Matrix services . Moreover, Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress and creator of Automattic, intends to integrate Matrix support into the WordPress platform.
With WordPress being used on approximately 36% of all sites on the Web, the initiative could lead to a significant increase in the popularity of Matrix and a wider promotion of solutions based on this protocol. In addition to investing in New Vector, Automattic hire an engineer to work full-time on Matrix and WordPress integration
Possible integration ideas include tools for creating Matrix chats on WordPress sites, support for automatically broadcasting new posts to Matrix channels, adapting the Matrix client to work as a plugin for WordPress, transferring the Tumblr service owned by Automattic to decentralized technologies, etc. P.
The allocated funds are planned to be used to make Riot an application that meets the needs of users and simplify the work with the application without losing functionality. Investments will also be spent on expanding the Modular service, which allows anyone to deploy their own Matrix server with one click.
Recall that the platform for organizing decentralized communications Matrix is ββdeveloping as a project that uses open standards and pays great attention to ensuring the security and privacy of users. HTTPS+JSON is used as a transport with the ability to use WebSockets or a protocol based on +. The system is formed as a community of servers that can interact with each other and are combined into a common decentralized network. Messages are replicated across all servers to which messaging participants are connected. Messages are propagated across servers similar to how commits are propagated between Git repositories. In the event of a temporary shutdown of the server, messages are not lost, but are transmitted to users after the server is resumed. Various user ID options are supported, including email, phone number, Facebook account, etc.
There is no single point of failure or message control in the network. All servers covered by the discussion are equal among themselves.
Any user can run their own server and connect it to the public network. It is possible to create for Matrix to interact with systems based on other protocols, for example, services for sending two-way messages to IRC, Facebook, Telegram, Skype, Hangouts, Email, WhatsApp and Slack.
In addition to instant text messaging and organizing chats, the system can be used to transfer files, send notifications,
organizing teleconferences, making voice and video calls.
Matrix allows you to use the search and unlimited viewing of the history of correspondence. It also supports advanced features such as typing notification, user online presence assessment, read confirmation, push notifications, server-side search, client history and status synchronization.
Source: opennet.ru