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Sprint - Purge On

Monday we have started new sprint.
Last sprint, was not as successful as we planned it to be. Due to personal issues, and the whole shitshow with abusers, we could not finish things we've planned. We did however, purge lots of abusive accounts, sent out the disroot-matrix closure announcement a...

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Cierre de Matrix

Como algunos de ustedes ya habrán oído, hemos decidido discontinuar parcialmente nuestro servidor Matrix. Descubrimos Matrix mientras intentábamos mejorar nuestro servidor XMPP (irónicamente, durante un sprint llamado: "¡Hacer a XMPP genial de nuevo!") y nos dimos cuenta cuán grande era el potenci...

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Spring update

Dear disrooters,
It’s been a while since you heard from us last time. At least some of you. Last months we’ve been very bad in informing you about the changes. We blame matrix for it 😛 We’ve been very active on our latest additional service — where quite a nice community has formed — and kept on po

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End of 2016 sprint summary

Hi Disrooters,

First of we would like to wish you all a happy new year. It’s been a joy running Disroot for the past year. A lot has changed since we started. We had our fun and our stress moments, we learned a lot and we managed to stay afloat. We can only wish the next year to be as rich as this...

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Disroot joins the Matrix network

For the last sprint of the year we decided to focus on improving instant messaging. We’ve been big enthusiasts of XMPP as the best solution for chatting, since like… forever. The obvious perks of XMPP are federation and decentralization. There are plenty of XMPP service providers and setting up...

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