There's work ongoing on the server side to make things more efficient (the flagship implementation, Synapse, has always had a reputation as a bit of a resource hog), and they're continuing work on...
At the end of each year it’s been traditional to do a big review of everything that the Matrix core team got up to that year, and announcing our predictions for the next. You can see the last edition in 2021 here - and if you’re feeling nostalgic you can head down memory lane with the 2020, 2019, 2018 ones etc too.
This year is turning out to be slightly different, however. Our plans for 2022 are particularly ambitious: to force a step change in improving Matrix’s performance and usability so that we firmly transition from our historical “make it work” and “make it work right” phases into “making it fast”. Specifically: to succeed, Matrix has to succeed in powering apps which punch their weight in terms of performance and usability against the proprietary centralised alternatives of WhatsApp, Discord, Slack and friends.
There's work ongoing on the server side to make things more efficient (the flagship implementation, Synapse, has always had a reputation as a bit of a resource hog), and they're continuing work on the new and improved ElementX clients (the current versions are OK, but definitely have issues with speed and the user interface).
The Go server implementation, Dendrite, is also rapidly advancing, and from my experience hosting it in termux on an old Android phone, it's fairly usable. They bring up P2P but it doesn't seem to be anywhere near usable yet - still, I'm very interested in where it goes.
All in all, I'm pretty excited to see where the Matrix protocol and community goes, and I'm happy to see this level of transparency from the devs.
There's work ongoing on the server side to make things more efficient (the flagship implementation, Synapse, has always had a reputation as a bit of a resource hog), and they're continuing work on the new and improved ElementX clients (the current versions are OK, but definitely have issues with speed and the user interface).
The Go server implementation, Dendrite, is also rapidly advancing, and from my experience hosting it in termux on an old Android phone, it's fairly usable. They bring up P2P but it doesn't seem to be anywhere near usable yet - still, I'm very interested in where it goes.
All in all, I'm pretty excited to see where the Matrix protocol and community goes, and I'm happy to see this level of transparency from the devs.