Support for MATRIX has ENDED

Greetings All:

Short version: BobRTC is not taking Matrix accounts anymore. YOU NEED TO MIGRATE AND TO DO THAT, GO HERE -> https://talk.bobrtc.tel/#/room/#migration:bobrtc.tel

We left Discord after lawyers hired by scammers were trawling scambaiting communities and Discord made no guarantee that they would not yank our ability to use Discord as an authentication platform. Further, Discord records detailed amounts of user activity and traces users which then become subject to disclosure without the user knowing about it. We found this to be unacceptable given how many US technology companies actually cater to scammers. So we left.

We went to the Matrix platform believing that with control over our own equipment and being on their network, our users were safer. Not only were we proven wrong, but Matrix servers are loaded with enless amounts of trash accounts and user abuse. The core developers seem unconcerned that node owners on Matrix have a losing battle on their hands, and it took only one particular troll to make communication between scambaiters untenable. So now we are leaving Matrix.

The only permanent solution is for us to control accounts directly so that when trolls are abusive, we can raise the burden high enough to make creating trash accounts a very laborous task, and we have full control over the user registration process so we can watch user behavior as a troll is creating an account, learn from those patterns and then deal with it. Trolls have made administrating BobRTC a very costly affair and their abuse take up most of our administrative time. Unfortunately this comes at a cost of punishing the good users who just want to call scammers.