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by iptq 999 days ago
exciting to hear! I only wish i had more time to contribute.

Has there been any movement on migrating away from long polling (#475)? I didn't see anything about it in the announcements or comments despite such a big milestone
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Arathorn 999 days ago
Low Bandwidth Matrix is the answer to that, and it’s currently on hold unless it gets funded: https://matrix.org/blog/2021/06/10/low-bandwidth-matrix-an-i...

It might also get changed as part of Sliding Sync refinement.

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xvilka 998 days ago
Hopefully it will be the default once implemented. Everyone will benefit from compact protocol in the long run. Should have been done from the very beginning.
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snvzz 998 days ago
Is there going to be a way to have very simple clients, perhaps with a helper in the server side?

It'd be nice to bring matrix to microcontrollers and "retro" computer platforms.

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Arathorn 998 days ago
the API already is super simple, and low bandwidth could already work on retro machines (I had 6809 in mind when experimenting with it). The problem is e2ee, but we have the Pantalaimon e2ee proxy to convert unencrypted Matrix traffic into E2EE traffic for precisely this sort of thing :)
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snvzz 998 days ago
That's promising :)

I had 68000, 8086/88 and 6502 in mind.

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