Engineering - Element Blog

Exploring MatrixRTC: Real time communication in rooms

Members of Element’s VoIP team shared a deep dive into MatrixRTC, the framework bringing real time communication natively into Matrix rooms.

An Element Web for the future

At FOSDEM 2026, the world’s largest open source conference, David Baker and Florian Duros presented an inside look at Element Web - from its early days to the bold plans shaping its future.

Decoding the hidden trade-offs of E2EE and usability

Decoding end-to-end encryption: Privacy vs. Usability. Read more about the trade-offs and how we work to solve them

Element Call: Redefining conferencing for privacy, scale and sovereignty

At Matrix Conference 2025, Florian, Aaron and Timo showcased how Element Call is bringing secure, federated, and scalable real-time communication to Matrix.

ESS - Element’s distribution for Matrix deployments

ESS - Element’s distribution for Matrix deployments

Verifying your devices is becoming mandatory

From April 2026, only verified devices can send or receive end-to-end encrypted message on Element.

Element X and Pro updates; a glimpse into the future

At The Matrix Conference 2025, I had the opportunity to reveal the evolution and journey to our flagship apps: Element X and Element Pro. Watch the whole presentation A big bet; building Element X A couple of years ago, we made a bold decision; to rebuild our mobile apps from

Large-scale multi-tenancy hosting for TI-Messenger and beyond

How do you effectively onboard hundreds of thousands of healthcare clinics and pharmacies to Germany’s TI-Messenger?

Welcome to the all new Element Server Suite family of Helm charts!

Introducing the new Helm-based Element Server Suite (ESS) - our family of products designed as an “out-of-the-box” way to deploy, host and maintain a Matrix-based system.

Hiding room metadata from servers

Every year, Element takes on a small number of summer interns to work on various research and development projects. Internships are a significant part of our culture, and ~20% of the current Element engineering team has completed some form of internship with us before joining permanently. This year, our interns

TI-Messenger is moving to Matrix 1.15

Gematik recently announced its intention to rebase its TI-Messenger specification on Matrix v1.15, which brings important improvements to TI-Messenger.

Addressing fear, uncertainty and doubt thrown at Element and Matrix

We’ve seen a serious uptick in misinformation about Element and Matrix over the last week, so thought it would be useful to set the record straight from Element’s side.

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