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diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 8bfedfb0c6..319bbb6e4e 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -4,13 +4,18 @@ Quick Start Matrix is an ambitious new ecosystem for open federated Instant Messaging and VoIP[1]. The basics you need to know to get up and running are: - - Chatrooms look like ``#matrix:matrix.org`` or ``#test:localhost:8080`` + - Chatrooms are distributed and do not exist on any single server. Rooms + can be found using names like ``#matrix:matrix.org`` or + ``#test:localhost:8080`` or they can be ephemeral. - Matrix user IDs look like ``@matthew:matrix.org`` (although in the future you will normally refer to yourself and others using a 3PID: email address, phone number, etc rather than manipulating matrix user IDs) - - <ascii diagram showing trapezium> + +The overall architecture is:: + + client <----> homeserver <=================> homeserver <-----> client + e.g. matrix.org:8080 e.g. mydomain.net:8080 To get up and running: @@ -26,7 +31,7 @@ To get up and running: in your web browser (a recent Chrome, Safari or Firefox for now, please...) - - To quickly run a **public** homeserver that can exchange messages with + - To make the homeserver **public** and let it exchange messages with other homeservers and participate in the overall Matrix federation, open up port 8080 and run ``python synapse/app/homeserver.py --host machine.my.domain.name``. Then come join ``#matrix:matrix.org`` and |