The Matrix Conference 2026

The timeline is the most interacted-with piece of any chat software. It's where messages live! It's hard to have a chat app without one.

Unfortunately, the matrix protocol has... compromises... in the timeline made for the sake of federation. From the incosistent ordering between sync and history on Synapse, to the inability to jump to pinned messages from before you joined, to the mystery of what happens when you join a room your server previously left.

The good news is we have a solution! The bad news is it's gonna take a while. This talk is a rundown of every step needed to get a next-generation timeline. I'll explain stitched ordering, timeline fragments, and why we need state DAGs.

I'll show you how to deploy a working Matrix server, live, in just a few minutes using Continuwuity. Then we'll get down to brass tacks and set up everything that makes Matrix great:

• Native, next-generation video conferencing
• Moderation bots, and all the tooling you need to manage and scale a public Matrix community
• Bridges beyond Matrix to message family on Whatsapp and signal or merge communities on Slack or Discord
• Bots, bots, bots! Ping racing, reminders and handy custom tools

I've got a plan, but this sessions is for you, so we'll go off the rails to follow what you want to know. The intention is that everyone has something useful to take home!

last April, a new homeserver burst onto the scene. Soon enough, hundreds of servers were running this mysterious new software - and the momentum didn't drop. Today, more than one and a half thousand servers on the public federation run Continuwuity.

That leads to some questions. Where did it come from? What happened? Where is it going? Well, We've got anwers for all of that. Right here. Exclusively. This is a breakdown from the team behind the mystery well-regarded open source project, going over all of that and more. You know you're interested.