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High quality video conferencing from Modular
Introducing a brand new high quality video conferencing service at no additional cost! Widespread remote working has rapidly increased the use of video calls and conferencing; a trend clearly demonstrated by Modular’s usage stats. As we adapt to living and working ‘in isolation,’ we believe that video calls will
Matthew Hodgson
19/03/2020
Remote schooling: Health safety measures shouldn’t put our kids’ privacy at risk.
As everyone is taking drastic measures to halt the spread of Covid19, online collaboration is even more of a critical backbone for the world. But should we protect our health at the expense of our privacy? Moving most of our communications online means that most of our important and private
Amandine Le Pape
13/03/2020
Mozilla selects Modular and Riot to power their community instant messaging
After a formal 1-month trial [https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/synchronous-messaging-at-mozilla-trial-servers-feedback/44871] of 4 different platforms, we are very excited that Mozilla have announced their decision to move their communications from IRC to Matrix [https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/synchronous-messaging-at-mozilla-the-decision/50620] , choosing Modular [https://modular.im/] and Riot [https://riot.
Amandine Le Pape
19/12/2019
Riot Web 1.5  — Big accessibility improvements, and introducing CIDER: our brand new message composer!
Riot Web 1.5 is out now, landing our brand new message composer with improved accessibility, increased language compatibilty and enhanced stability! Accessibility improvements! In the last sprint we spent some time improving accessibility on Riot Web and iOS. Accessibility improvements already being positively received in the wild! [https://mastodon.
Thomas Lant
21/10/2019
$8.5M to accelerate Matrix, polish Riot and expand Modular!
The need for decentralised encrypted communication is becoming critical, as the pressure mounts on the big centralised communication silos to insert backdoors [https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/bill-barr-facebook-letter-halt-encryption] into their encryption, and we see ever more erratic behaviour [https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/22/iran-sanctions-slack/?guccounter=1&
Amandine Le Pape
10/10/2019
Personal Hosted Homeservers have landed!!
Hi all, Ever since Modular launched we’ve been working away on offering smaller dedicated Matrix server hosting than our previous minimum size of 50 users. As of today, after lots of optimisation work and a successful trial to those who signed up on the waitlist, we are incredibly excited
Matthew Hodgson
15/09/2019
Build your own custom branded chat platform at the touch of a button!
Today we are pleased to announce that you can now customise your Element Matrix Services (EMS) hosted Element at the touch of a button, through the EMS host admin interface. This is available to EMS customers on Silver, Gold and Platinum plans. To get your very own branded chat, simply
Steve Loynes
6/03/2019
HipChat migration - Don't follow the herd
As you may be aware, the deadline is fast approaching when Atlassian will discontinue support for Stride and HipChat [https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Stride-articles/Stride-and-Hipchat-Cloud-End-of-Life-Just-under-30-days-away/ba-p/940248] , on February 15th 2019. Get your own Modular Hosted Homeserver now [https://modular.im/user/hosting?setup=true] Atlassian's advice,
Matthew Hodgson
22/01/2019
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