Matrix Community Year in Review 2022
&gt;Usually the Matrix organization posts such an update, but I felt like this years update was a bit scary and also light on community projects.<p>I noticed that while reading it as well. The call for funding ap  few weeks ago did not sound nearly as dire. I wonder how things are going with that. I had wanted to donate to Matrix a number of months ago, but there was no easy, non-Patreon way to do that. I guess I assumed that with the new ask for donations and setting up DonorBox would have a pretty large response.<p>It&#x27;s also strange how quickly this situation developed. I read every TWIM (at least I did before RSS broke recently) and follow the project and some developers on Mastodon, and don&#x27;t recall hearing anything about financial woes. If anything, it seemed like at least New Vector was doing well financially. It isn&#x27;t clear to me whether the financial issues are with Matrix directly, or New Vector. I don&#x27;t think this is mentioned for the two developers who were laid off either.<p>Overall, the tone and urgency of the 2022 update struck me very off guard - not what I was expecting.