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Story from quite recent past. I went to Stockholm this week to attend the AWS Summit. When the plane touched down in Stockholm, I figured that I'll message so
by darthrupert 3y ago
Story from quite recent past.
I went to Stockholm this week to attend the AWS Summit. When the plane touched down in Stockholm, I figured that I'll message some friends via Matrix, if any of them wanna meet.
My messages didn't seem to go through. That's weird, but I guess roaming is blocking that somehow (I wonder how/why, isn't it just https? Oh well)... So I try it again bit later, when I'm on wlan.
Exactly same error. Client says that my messages cannot be sent. This is when I notice that none of the busy channels have had new messages.
And that's when I noticed that my Matrix provider has been having a serious database outage, starting about the time I arrived in Stockholm. The whole server is down and the only blatant symptom is that the client complains about outgoing messages.
- hammyhavoc 3y agoP2P is a WIP, which could alleviate issues like this. Did you report the problem on GitHub at least?
- darthrupert 3y agoI guess there are two separate problems here: 1. The UX problem where connection problems aren't signalled properly 2. A single server bringing down the whole service (from that server's user's perspective) 1 should be easy to report and perhaps even fix. I don't know if 2 can be fixed with this decentralized design. Matrix in its current form is quite vulnerable to single server failures.