From 0393bd63562bf958205614d7f7d467aa9a48cf32 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Slavi Pantaleev Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 13:58:40 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Update Matrix Room Search indexing statistics again Fixup for f49e3f1e021a883f. It appears that many servers are incredibly slow, so the value was misreported and more are online than previously estimated. --- CHANGELOG.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md index 0d2d09b3d..9a787876f 100644 --- a/CHANGELOG.md +++ b/CHANGELOG.md @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ The **historical reasoning** behind this change is as follows: - In Synapse v1.7.0 (~2019), `allow_public_rooms_over_federation` [got disabled](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/e9069c9f919685606506f04527332e83fbfa44d9/docs/upgrade.md?plain=1#L1877-L1891) by default in a [security-by-obscurity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity) workaround for misconfigured servers. See the [Avoiding unwelcome visitors on private Matrix servers](https://matrix.org/blog/2019/11/09/avoiding-unwelcome-visitors-on-private-matrix-servers/) `matrix.org` blog article. We believe that people wishing for a truly private server, should [disable federation](docs/configuring-playbook-federation.md#disabling-federation), instead of having a fully-federating server and trying to hide its public rooms. We also provide other workarounds below. We (and the Synapse team, obviously) believe that Matrix should federate by default, so federating the public room list seems to make sense. -- [etke.cc](https://etke.cc/) has been developing the free-software [Matrix Rooms Search](https://gitlab.com/etke.cc/mrs) project for a while now. One public (demo) instance of it is hosted at [matrixrooms.info](https://matrixrooms.info/). This search engine tries to go through the Matrix federation and discover & index public rooms to allow people to find them. We believe it's vital for Matrix (and any chat or social network for that matter) to be more discoverable, so that people can find communities and others to talk to. Today (on 23rd of October 2023), `matrixrooms.info` is indexing `23066` Matrix servers. Of these, only `781` servers (3%) are making their public rooms discoverable. Who knows what wonderful communities and rooms are available on these 97% other Matrix servers that are supposedly federating, but are still gate-keeping their public room list. Indubitably, many of these servers are hosted via matrix-docker-ansible-deploy, so we feel partially responsible for making Matrix federation less useful. +- [etke.cc](https://etke.cc/) has been developing the free-software [Matrix Rooms Search](https://gitlab.com/etke.cc/mrs) project for a while now. One public (demo) instance of it is hosted at [matrixrooms.info](https://matrixrooms.info/). This search engine tries to go through the Matrix federation and discover & index public rooms to allow people to find them. We believe it's vital for Matrix (and any chat or social network for that matter) to be more discoverable, so that people can find communities and others to talk to. Today (on 23rd of October 2023), `matrixrooms.info` is indexing `23066` Matrix servers. Of these, only `1567` servers (7%) are making their public rooms discoverable. Who knows what wonderful communities and rooms are available on these 93% other Matrix servers that are supposedly federating, but are still gate-keeping their public room list. Indubitably, many of these servers are hosted via matrix-docker-ansible-deploy, so we feel partially responsible for making Matrix federation less useful. Here are **actions you may wish to take** as a result of this change: