I was recently invited to join the Matrix “Spec Core Team”, the group who steward the Matrix protocol, from their own documentation :
Matrix includes the ability for a client to request that the server generate a “preview” for a URL . The client provides a URL to the server which returns Open Graph data as a JSON response. This leaks any URLs detected in the message content to the server, but protects the …
Previously I have written about how push rules generate notifications and how read receipts mark notificiations as read in the Matrix protocol. This article is about a change that I instigated to improve when a “mention” (or “ping”) notification is created. (This is a “highlight” notification in the Matrix specification …