seshat

A Matrix message database/indexer

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A Matrix message database/indexer

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2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2023	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	2

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Arathorn·Dec 20, 2019

1a: Yes. the second we have parity, we'll start turning it on by default for private rooms. We'll probably start with DMs, and we'll probably do a fairly soft roll-out to sneak in some final testing. Current status is that we have E2E Search working (github.com/matrix-org/seshat); we have E2E cross-signing almost done (https://dashboard.lant.uk/#/plan?epic=vector-im/user-stories... we have eyes on the remaining causes of undecryptable messages and are working through them. We're aiming for Jan. 3: Interesting. It could be a very temporary CPU saturation on the Matrix.org CPU master. We're working on sharding the master per-room to mitigate this, but it's going to be a few months to land. 4: Looks like there is a bug for this already - please upvote https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/10649. Testing & reporting bugs is absolut

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