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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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  1. …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…
  2. …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
  3. …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
  4. 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
  5. …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
  6. …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
  7. …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
  8. …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
  9. 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
  10. …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)…
  11. …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.
  12. …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…