From f49e3f1e021a883fc7dd56fb25f9fa91f2725d65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Slavi Pantaleev Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 12:18:08 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Update Matrix Room Search indexing statistics This brings the values up-to-date as of the latest indexing run done today. Due to a bug, the previous values were somewhat off. The new numbers are different and actually demonstrate that the situation is much worse than initially imagined. --- CHANGELOG.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md index 0c560da6a..d3c977bf0 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. On 19th of October 2023, `matrixrooms.info` was indexing `23831` Matrix servers. Of these, only `1937` servers (8%) were making their public rooms discoverable. Who knows what wonderful communities and rooms are available on these 92% 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 `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. Here are **actions you may wish to take** as a result of this change: