Commenting in Drupal hasn't noticeably changed in 15 years. That changes now.
🕑Oct 13, 2026 🖋John Locke
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Matrix
🕑Oct 10, 2026 🖋John Locke
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Drupal Meets Matrix part 2: Live Comments with ECA and HTMX
A comment thread in Drupal works totally fine. You fill in a form, click submit, and your comment gets posted. Same way it has for over 20 years.
But if somebody else replies when you're on the page, you don't see anything change, you don't get any notification.
🕑Aug 31, 2026 🖋John Locke
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Drupal Meets Matrix part 1: Setting up Matrix API
I've been maintaining the matrix_api module on Drupal.org since 2016, nearly a decade of it doing one thing well: posting Drupal events into a Matrix room. This year that changed.
Automatically send notifications to a Matrix chat room
When you work on a team, it's useful to have notifications go to a chat room where you can coordinate any necessary action. Reviewing a comment before publishing, seeing stories as they are written, getting notified of new orders are the kinds of things we like having in a shared room.
🕑Dec 26, 2022 🖋John Locke
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Software we're grateful for #1 - Matrix
In the spirit of the holidays, we're doing a few posts on Free/Open Source projects that we use every day, that isn't what we sell.
🕑Sep 17, 2017 🖋John Locke
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Post Salt events into a Matrix room
In our quest to get all things into Matrix, we've also sent Salt events into a Matrix room. This is extremely useful to monitor the results of automatic highstate runs, individual commands, etc.
🕑Sep 17, 2017 🖋John Locke
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Post Nagios/Icinga alerts to a Matrix room
We just added Matrix notifications to an old Icinga server we have, because why not? We love having everything in Matrix...
🕑Jun 05, 2017 🖋John Locke
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Added D8 Rules support to Matrix API
As of today, the Drupal Matrix API module now supports sending messages to a room via Rules. Now you can automatically configure notifications to Matrix rooms without touching any code!
🕑May 22, 2017 🖋John Locke
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Added reminders to our Matrix bot
!remind me to respond to Bill in 2 hours
🕑Feb 18, 2017 🖋John Locke
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Privacy Matters
Last week the Note to Self podcast put together a thought-provoking, action-inspiring series called The Privacy Paradox.
🕑Dec 22, 2016 🖋John Locke
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Drupal 8 Configuration Management in the real world - workflow and gotchas
Panacea, or disaster? Drupal 8 Configuration Management was supposed to solve all our woes when it came to dealing with deploying configuration. In many ways it's a vast improvement, but in some ways it has almost made matters worse.
🕑Dec 06, 2016 🖋John Locke
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Yet another messaging platform: Why Riot?
People who know me know I can get stubborn when I get sold on a particular technology. For the past year, my favorite is Matrix, a distributed chat system that addresses pretty much everything anyone wants from a messaging system. The only catch? Not that many "regular people" are using it yet.
