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)
  • Yaky@slrpnk.netOP
    6·
    2 days ago

    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·
      1 day ago

      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.