Arathorn

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by Arathorn 1y ago
This would make sense if you were talking about the old Element app, but Element X is generally seen as a night and day improvement. Can you say what the problems are on Element X? Trying to speak dispassionately as someone who lives their
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by Arathorn 1y ago
Are you having these problems on Element X or Element Classic (the old mobile app, which is in maintenance mode?) (Element Classic used a mix of legacy Matrix voip calling for 1:1 and Jitsi for group calling; Element X has switched to nativ
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by Arathorn 1y ago
It is absolutely possible to have a Matrix deployment that works seamlessly. It's true though that a lot of people are very unhappy at the transition from Element to Element X, hence the recent complaining threads. You can see a respo
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by Arathorn 1y ago
This feels very strange: the clients on that page span a huge range of maturity and capability. If you put every email client or every web browser on a single page you’d get a crazy mix too - does that mean that email & the web have fai
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by Arathorn 1y ago
suspect they compiled a list of platforms where they had found anti-Nepalese content of whatever flavour, and there just happens to be none on Matrix.
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by Arathorn 1y ago
nobody asked Matrix to comply with this (as far as I know). like Mastodon/ActivityPub, it's a bit of a lost cause to try to block a decentralised protocol in practice.
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by Arathorn 1y ago
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lkCKhP1jxdk&t=741 is firsthand info
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by Arathorn 1y ago
erm, that branch isn’t in use anywhere these days? it used to be what we ran on the matrix.org homeserver, but it’s dead.
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by Arathorn 1y ago
erm, no? this literally was our DR in the event of losing both primary & secondary DBs, and we'd tested it, and it worked as well as expected.
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by Arathorn 1y ago
for the sake of completeness, we got the DB recovered after about 23h of downtime. postmortem will be forthcoming. See also https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/03/matrixorg_raid_failur... https://w
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by Arathorn 1y ago
nope, because the matrix-org branch of synapse was archived at the end of 2023, so you'd be horribly out of date and insecure; instead the team who wrote Synapse switched to AGPL and now release it at github.com/element-hq.
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by Arathorn 1y ago
see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45107696
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by Arathorn 1y ago
Thanks for all the positive vibes & hugops folks :D Fwiw, the DB isn't corrupted - the database 2ndary dropped its RAID array on having new disks added (the hw raid controller incorrectly added them into the array, breaking it)...
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by Arathorn 1y ago
There's around 50M rooms, and the dataset is back to 2014. However, much of the room is taken up by the Synapse DB schema being particularly denormalised (prioritising performance over disk footprint) - especially caching snapshots of
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by Arathorn 1y ago
Matrix.org itself doesn't publish an 'official' way to run a server, given there are multiple implementations and distros out there. If you're happy using kubernetes, https://element.io/server-suite/
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by Arathorn 1y ago
> The biggest example of this for me is that in all these reflections from Matthew I don't see any recognition that maybe what's needed is not more delivering but less promising. The line you quote from Matrix Live then directl
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by Arathorn 1y ago
Thanks. We used to relay the videos as a podcast here: https://matrix.org/podcasts but it looks like the automation stopped in 2022 and nobody noticed or complained :S I think most people follow it on YT.
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by Arathorn 1y ago
You may be interested in this week’s Matrix Live ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyuqM7RbX5E - transcript at https://gist.github.com/ara4n/190ad712965d0f06e17f508d1a45b5... ) to see Matrix’s thoughts o
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by Arathorn 1y ago
> How the hell did they manage to make chat so complicated? This is a bit like saying “CVS works fine; how the hell did they manage to make git/mercurial/monotone/etc so complicated?” The point of Matrix is to replicate co
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by Arathorn 1y ago
We've posted an update on https://github.com/element-hq/element-meta/issues/2486#issue... - that specific tracking issue had fallen off our radar; sorry.
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by Arathorn 1y ago
This article is fundamentally false - we addressed it on https://element.io/blog/addressing-fear-uncertainty-and-doub... dang: is HN really the place for competitive marketing crap like this?
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by Arathorn 1y ago
Ugh, yes - i'd made the mental leap that https://github.com/element-hq/element-meta/issues/2700 had finished rolling out, whereas it looks like it's now delayed until October due to having to wait f
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by Arathorn 1y ago
I call it a hit piece because it starts off with demonstrably bogus complaints (“if you ask servers to delete data they may ignore you!”). The fact I then went through point by point to acknowledge that a few of the other points are still r
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by Arathorn 1y ago
I’ve never said this is “only an issue for malicious homeservers”. I said that if you want to be sure who’s in your group you need to verify their identity, at which point you get warned very clearly if malicious devices get added and most
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by Arathorn 1y ago
Okay - as I said in the parent, this should not happen . Most people report UTDs as having gone away; i haven’t seen any myself in months, let alone any this bad. The only scenario i can think of here is either you logged out of all device
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by Arathorn 1y ago
Another day, another matrix hit piece on the front page of HN. Unsure whether it's really my job as matrix lead to respond, but hey, let's go again. TL;DR: the only valid points here really are complaints about state resets (being
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by Arathorn 1y ago
There's also https://github.com/gomuks/gomuks/tree/master for golang folks (although it's currently doing a transition to being a web client... and then back to being a TUI apparently)
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by Arathorn 1y ago
we solved it in element x, but there appears to be massive inertia towards adopting it because it doesn’t have threads or spaces yet.
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by Arathorn 1y ago
we could have run with https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-pgchecksums.html turned on, but it slows things down a bunch - and turning it on in retrospect would have taken days. Also not clear that it would
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We recovered from nightmare Postgres corruption on the matrix.org homeserver(matrix.org)
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