It isn't very technically detailed, but it should be clear enough. Your system sounds like a good match for what I imagine. The TL;DR: The messages are in focus, not the servers. Content-addressing using hashes, threads managed through messages referencing prior messages directly by their hashes. When creating forums, servers are just (optionally) defined to simplify routing / delivery.
One could build discussion servers on top of the matrix home server, and discussion clients to match.
Heh, this is awesome and pretty much precisely what we have in mind with Matrix. All that is missing is threading and editable message support, which we are working on shortly. Help would be very very much appreciated, especially in building bridges to forums!!
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It isn't very technically detailed, but it should be clear enough. Your system sounds like a good match for what I imagine. The TL;DR: The messages are in focus, not the servers. Content-addressing using hashes, threads managed through messages referencing prior messages directly by their hashes. When creating forums, servers are just (optionally) defined to simplify routing / delivery.
One could build discussion servers on top of the matrix home server, and discussion clients to match.