Arathorn

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by Arathorn 11mo ago
I've not seen many corrupted sqlite databases, but because Synapse is not currently storage-efficient you can end up with some terrifying large (100GB+) sqlite databases which might as well be corrupted. We only ever supported sqlite f
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by Arathorn 11mo ago
> Matrix also makes the entire event history (minus message content depending on room configuration) available to servers on join The important bit is the bit in brackets: as you say, historical message content is not shared if the roo
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by Arathorn 11mo ago
There's a bunch of outdated info in here, unfortunately: > Does not have an admin panel The admin panel is at https://github.com/element-hq/element-admin (but it's relatively new, so many folks haven'
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by Arathorn 11mo ago
Speaking as project lead for Matrix, the protocol does currently expose more metadata to the server than it should. Specifically, the main issues are: * no sealed-sender (but see the OP on why this is not a panacea) * server can see which u
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by Arathorn 11mo ago
speaking as Matrix’s lead maintainer: we are focused on it powering decentralised and encrypted whatsapp (or teams) alternatives. unsure what makes you think we want to build a next-gen tcp/ip, but can I have some?
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by Arathorn 11mo ago
building a more flexible solution for blocking content, rather than hardcoded rules like "no images": https://matrix.org/blog/2025/04/introducing-policy-servers/
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by Arathorn 11mo ago
No, it's just a warning that your client can't prove that the message was really sent by that sender. These will eventually go away once https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/404.
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by Arathorn 11mo ago
The main things are https://matrix.org/blog/2025/04/introducing-policy-servers/ (for flexible serverside moderation) and the rest of the stuff in https://matrix.org/blog/2025/02
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by Arathorn 11mo ago
> afaik only matrix.org went down correct; the rest of the network was unaffected - it was just one instance (albeit the biggest one). https://matrix.org/blog/2025/10/post-mortem .
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by Arathorn 11mo ago
https://www.uhoreg.ca/programming/matrix/polyjuice is closest
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by Arathorn 1y ago
We are open to suggestions :) And the very first generation of P2P Matrix was indeed built on libp2p (and Protocol Labs led Element's Series B). However, the thought experiment here is whether we can get away without a full global P2P
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by Arathorn 1y ago
I'm resurrecting peer-to-peer Matrix ( https://arewep2pyet.com ) thanks to the Dutch government, who started funding it in October. The main question is which P2P overlay network to use, if any: the prior incarnation used Pin
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by Arathorn 1y ago
metadata from Matrix is never 'public' (i.e. visible to the public). It's visible to only the admins of the servers participating in a given conversation.
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by Arathorn 1y ago
it's an unrelated for-profit startup, which isn't standards based.
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by Arathorn 1y ago
Yup, we're #3 behind the film and the hair company. Doesn't seem too bad; meanwhile Element is #1, terrifyingly, at least for my geoip.
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by Arathorn 1y ago
the main complaints against Matrix atm seems to be that we have made heavy weather of the migration from 1.0 to 2.0 (“either you get a slow client or a fast but incomplete client”)… or that Element has had to focus on building stuff for gov
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by Arathorn 1y ago
There was an internal retro, but nothing external - from our perspective the upgrade was overall successful. What bridges are you thinking of which don't support v12? We will start force-upgrading foundation-managed matrix.org rooms so
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by Arathorn 1y ago
the rationale is to get element (and the foundation) sustainable by funding from big institutions. meanwhile the competition is typically whatsapp & signal, so the hope is that whatever works for institutions will also work for average
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by Arathorn 1y ago
thanks - both received; we'll dig into it. thanks!
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by Arathorn 1y ago
upstreamed into Synapse as of Sept 2024, and the proxy was sunset in Nov 2024: https://matrix.org/blog/2024/11/14/moving-to-native-sliding-... Not that many clients have actually adopted it though, becau
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by Arathorn 1y ago
In Matrix 2.0, all calls are group capable (much like Matrix itself doesn’t specialcase DMs - they are just rooms with 2 people). So yes, no coturn is needed. We haven’t got as far as interop between legacy Matrix 1:1 calling and Matrix 2.0
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by Arathorn 1y ago
This is really surprising. Can you do a clean launch (ie kill the app and relaunch it) and then submit a bug report from both apps and let me know what mxid to look for? (DM to @matthew:matrix.org if needed). The logs will say where the tim
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by Arathorn 1y ago
Hm. Something sounds wrong here, then. On my iPhone 12 Pro Max on iOS 26, my account (~5000 rooms) opens in about 2s in Element X iOS. On the classic app it’s about 10s (ie unusable). Roughly how many rooms are you in? and what server is t
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by Arathorn 1y ago
Unfortunately that really does sound like an iOS beta problem - iOS betas are infamously unstable, and effectively used by Apple to hunt crashes that they've introduced when existing apps run. The notification badge issue is this mess:
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by Arathorn 1y ago
what guide were you following that told you to install coturn for Element X? It shouldn't be /that/ surprising that Element X's group-capable calling requires a group call server, and in general most people seem happy t
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by Arathorn 1y ago
Your best bet for that is almost certainly beeper.com, which isn't FOSS, but specialises in combining messaging channels and is built on Matrix. Otherwise, you do have to run your own bridges and hope for the best, and moreover the br
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by Arathorn 1y ago
So Aurora ( https://github.com/element-hq/aurora ) is a proof-of-concept we put together of rust-sdk on Web, using the new MVVM components from Element Web. However, the plan is likely not to actually switch base to Aur
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by Arathorn 1y ago
Right, thanks for clarifying. Yes, the desktop app isn’t as fast as it should be. On mobile we fixed this with Element X; on desktop we’re in the middle of the transition still. The conf talk on Element X Web is pretty good at explaining wh
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by Arathorn 1y ago
> Matrix is a modern attempt, but it's just bad. I doubt that Matrix will actually get anywhere usable in the future. Obviously I’m biased, but I seriously suggest looking at the various vids from the Conference. Matrix has definite
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by Arathorn 1y ago
Matrix isn’t US at all; it’s a UK Non Profit. Element is also UK headquartered, albeit with French/German/US subsidiaries when selling to those respective governments. BWI buy via France because when we started working with them w

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