Encryption is "activily bein worked on", sound about right - I never got encryption to work across two of my own devices with a third party.
Yet I do not understand why a rewrite of messaging as [matrix] was necessary, when XMPP was already there and matrix did not even have an edit-message feature on release, perhaps not even now.
Yet I do not understand why a rewrite of messaging as [matrix] was necessary, when XMPP was already there and matrix did not even have an edit-message feature on release, perhaps not even now.