"The code doesn't yet implement any of Matrix's core features, which allow you to federate safely, and so doesn't yet constitute a functional Matrix server, let alone a production-grade one."
"a filesystem which ignores permissions, or a blockchain which doesn't implement a consensus mechanism."
"The 'we did X' blog posts that turn out to be 'we did a demo of part of X' are getting old across the industry. The fix is boring: just be precise about what you built."
Cloudflare demonstrated a serverless Matrix homeserver running on Workers and claimed a complete implementation replacing PostgreSQL and Redis with D1 and Durable Objects. The GitHub repository initially labeled the project production-grade and offered a Deploy to Cloudflare button. Key Matrix functionality such as modeling rooms as replicated event graphs, permission checks, power-level enforcement, and state resolution remained unimplemented. Critical TODOs appeared in authentication and authorization code, and end-to-end encryption verification seemed incomplete. Community reactions flagged overclaiming, urged precise descriptions of demos, and noted indicators of significant AI assistance in the codebase.
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