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Synapse: Matrix homeserver written in Python/Twisted.

116 mentions on Hacker News by 68 people: 8 stories, 108 comments · first 2015-02-05 · latest 2026-02-13

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  1. https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse#help-synapse-eats-all-... I launch my instance like this: SYNAPSE_CACHE_FACTOR=0.01 synctl restart /etc/matrix-synapse/homeserver.yaml I run synapse on a machine with 1.5GB of total RAM and have had…
  2. …chat system based on this same principle This is how Matrix works, but using SRV records: https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse#setting-up-federation I've tried Matrix, and I feel it has potential, but right now the standard homeserver is…
  3. Head on over to: https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse#synapse-installation ...Then scroll to the last paragraph of this section, "...By default, registration of new users is disabled." The little command line method is what i used to…
  4. Riot is just a client running with a Matrix server. Synapse is the one we currently run https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/ Others are in development at http://matrix.org/docs/projects/try-matrix-now.html#servers but they are all alpha…
    comment by amandine · 2016-09-19 · in Vector is now called Riot
  5. …in Matrix or bridged into Matrix (e.g. from IRC, Slack etc), and run your own Matrix server (e.g. http://github.com/matrix-org/synapse ) so you end up owning your conversations rather than being trapped in some walled garden.
    comment by Arathorn · 2016-07-14 · in Vector Android now also on F-Droid
  6. …* The page you failed to find for the Synapse server is probably the read me at https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse . Agreed we need to make this clearer, and provide much better simple overviews and tutorials for getting up and running
  7. …exactly what you're asking. The only practically usable homeserver software right now is Synapse ( https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse ), an implementation in Python built by the Matrix core developer team.
  8. …traffic rather than bridging it anywhere). It's all happening on the application-services branch of https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse and the doc is at https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/application-se... and…