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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. there was also work being done to port to python3 https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/2539 but it looks like this hasn't been worked on since october last year.
    comment by zeratax · 2018-04-26 · in Matrix and Riot Confirmed as the Basis for France’s Secure Instant Messenger App
  2. …it's not bad. Though occasionally everything slows down and you have to run a query to cleanup ( https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/1760#issuecomme... )
    comment by floatboth · 2018-04-03 · in Sunsetting Tor Messenger
  3. …a half-decent UX, and some good marketing did. 1. Your link - https://about.riot.im/security/ 2. https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse#introduction 3. https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-bridge
    comment by Tecuane · 2018-03-23 · in Telegram: 200M Monthly Active Users
  4. Unfortunate name clash ( https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse )
    comment by floatboth · 2018-03-02 · in Show HN: Synapse, a full featured BitTorrent client in Rust
  5. …Wire is attempting to pursue decentralization, but federation is not (yet) in their roadmap.[1] [0] https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse [1] https://medium.com/@wireapp/wire-server-code-now-100-open-so...
    comment by equalunique · 2018-01-11 · in Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryption to Skype
  6. …ttps://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/issues/426 [1] https://www.hello-matrix.net/public_servers.php [2] https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/2111
    comment by DiThi · 2017-09-19 · in Signal’s Moxie Marlinspike calls out Telegram founder Pavel Durov
  7. …into synapse; it'd be pretty easy and fun (although obviously wouldn't work with encrypted rooms). https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/synapse/re... would be the place to index the file and chuck its contents into the…
    comment by Arathorn · 2017-05-05 · in Total.js Messenger – A small alternative to Slack
  8. 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…
    comment by neutral16 · 2016-11-22 · in Riot releases end-to-end encryption: get ready to chat securely
  9. …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…
    comment by lucaspiller · 2016-11-01 · in Show HN: IMAP-based message broker client written in Go
  10. 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…
    comment by mxuribe · 2016-10-13 · in Ask HN: How can I create a decentralized GNU-social-compatible website?
  11. 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
  12. …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
  13. …* 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
    comment by Arathorn · 2016-06-10 · in Show HN: Vector: a Matrix-powered open-source collaboration Web/Android/iOS app
  14. …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.
    comment by Perceptes · 2016-05-29 · in Gchat Was the Future of Messaging, but Google Didn’t Know
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    Matrix Synapse (ecosystem for Open Federated Instant Messaging and VoIP)
    story by andrelaszlo · 2015-02-25 · 0 comments
  16. …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…
    comment by ara4n · 2015-02-05 · in Matrix – An Open Standard for Decentralised Persistent Communication