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Synapse: Matrix homeserver written in Python/Twisted + Rust
12 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 0 stories, 12 comments · first 2024-12-05 · latest 2026-09-14
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…state validation. Synapse announced a 1 year compatibility window to avoid ecosystem fragemtnation: https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/19943 . However, due to MSC4311 not better outlining how to handle compatibility, another…
comment by Arathorn · 2026-09-14 · in Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs -
…sue. Average Joe with an AWS instance you might not be able to track down, should your data leak. https://github.com/element-hq/synapse https://github.com/mautrix/meta
comment by my_throwaway23 · 2026-01-25 · in BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp -
…for testing but they really don't recommend it for production. It's had a history of being broken: https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/18325
comment by joecool1029 · 2025-09-25 · in New Element Web and Desktop apps -
matrix.org branch is actually 5 months old now: https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/tree/matrix-org-hotfix...
comment by anticensor · 2025-09-03 · in Matrix.org – Database Incident -
…And several ones opened against synapse, but as it happens a fix was finally merged a day ago: https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/pull/18696
comment by iforgotpassword · 2025-07-23 · in Giving Up on Element and Matrix.org -
…ill-suited for its long-term goals and scale These days Synapse is hybrid Rust for the fast paths ( https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/tree/develop/rust ) and Python 3 + mypy for the rest. Huge servers like matrix.org (150K concurrent…
comment by Arathorn · 2025-07-20 · in Giving Up on Element and Matrix.org -
…the invitee's server that is "not valid" to a generic error, that element then chokes on, here: https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/blob/1920dfff40ad10780... i.e. Only 404 is valid, according to code and comment there. But IN THE SAME…
comment by iforgotpassword · 2025-07-19 · in Giving Up on Element and Matrix.org -
…database having gotten corrupted indexes, which affected a bunch of rooms (2/55 of ones I was in): https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/18606#issuecomm... . Not much a protocol/implementation can do about that. It did take over 2…
comment by dzaima · 2025-07-19 · in Giving Up on Element and Matrix.org -
1. Yes. Even the public website is open source. The license is AGPLv3: https://github.com/element-hq/synapse 2. Yes.
comment by cyberax · 2025-04-02 · in Matrix.org Will Migrate to MAS -
…meaning there hasn’t been $ to fund the work. FOSS Synapse has had Rust in it for years now: https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/tree/develop/rust/src > Your own blog post about the pro version (and the one about forking synapse)…
comment by Arathorn · 2025-01-19 · in Nation-scale Matrix deployments will fail using the community version of Synapse -
…homeserver is having problems, or authenticated media wasn't turned on right. If you can chuck a bug into github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues we'll look at it.
comment by Arathorn · 2025-01-14 · in IRC Driven – modern IRC indexing site and search engine -
…enough to write clients/servers using the protocol and the Synapse server can easily be forked ( https://github.com/element-hq/synapse ) if you find the need to do so. It does seem to be mainly worked on by Element, so there's always a…
comment by ndsipa_pomu · 2024-12-05 · in US Senators implore Department of Defense to expand the use of Matrix