And yet the Matrix team is doing it <i>remarkably</i> well.<p>I&#x27;ve been a user of Matrix for going on a year now, and they continue to roll out updates and improvements, over ALL of their platforms -- I use the android, iPad, and desktop&#x2F;web apps every single day.  They&#x27;re also a federated service.  Several of my friends run their own servers.<p>Some days there&#x27;s a little bar across the top of my page on the desktop client that says &quot;refresh to update your experience!&quot; and I do.  My experience updates.  Everything continues to work.<p>Matrix has done such a good job making it easy to roll out updates that people... do.<p>And I can&#x27;t tell you how thrilled I am to be living in a federated world.  You just can&#x27;t compare this to e.g. Slack.  I can get friends from all backgrounds on the same system because it&#x27;s so open.<p>The Matrix team is proof by example that federation and rapid forward motion <i>is</i> possible.