Experiences with the Matrix protocol, Matrix Synapse server, bridges, and Element mobile app. There are some you-just-have-to-know-this issues.

TL;DR:

  • Matrix Synapse: works fine, but requires constant manual maintenance.
  • Bridges: work pretty well.
  • Element: generally OK, some issues with timely notifications, no feature parity between Element Classic and Element X, terrible on-boarding (with current setup)
  • carbs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 天前

    I’m curious what maintenance you need to do each month, I’ve been running matrix for well over 5 years and I haven’t done anything other the keep the docker/db containers updated.

    Should I have been doing stuff? Now I’m worried.

    • Yaky@slrpnk.netOP
      6·
      1 天前

      For me, it was not monthly, but rather “when it bites you in the ass”.

      • Delete all empty rooms and federated rooms without local users.
      • Clean up state_groups_state table.
      • Delete old media.

      All of this is made worse by having more active users and made better by having a large hard drive (my VPS had 20GB, which I almost filled up with the db and media after a few years, with only few users)

      • carbs@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        22 小时前

        Ah, makes perfect sense, I don’t use the federation and I’ve got all media on a NAS with 24TB of space, so I’ve not really been concerned with space usage… I might want to do some house keeping at some point though.

        Glad I hadn’t missed any major.

        Thanks for the reply.