Comment by neiljohnson | Hacker News Reader

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Matrix backs the IM needs of the entire French government [1] and more recently signed the largest single instant messaging deal ever to help German schools manage remote education[2], it is also used in mission critical situations such as emergency services response.

I think it is fair to say that Synapse is more than production ready. Admittedly it can be hard to admin out of the box for smaller scale instances and we intend to improve on that experience over the coming months. Alternatively, hosting options are available[3].

After a hiatus, Dendrite is under active development and making rapid progress. It is an alpha release at the moment and not yet ready for production settings, but a beta release is coming soon.

[1] https://matrix.org/blog/2018/04/26/matrix-and-riot-confirmed... [2] https://sifted.eu/articles/element-germany-deal/ [3] https://matrix.org/hosting/

Please, Synapse isn’t production ready, at all. See this issue for example: https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3364, reported back in 2018, labelled highest priority since then and still not fixed. This is indeed a huge problem, because if you don’t have shit tons of money to put in your database server’s storage you’ll quickly get stuck. Some workarounds mentioned are non-safe hacks and shouldn’t be necessary for a production ready messaging server.

Ive been running synapse for atlest 3 years for very active group of about 40 on tiny 1gig ram server and its been great. The main issue is if you start to federate with main matrix instance which is gigantic and can slow things down.

But i dont need to federate and use it more as Slack and it just keeps getting better.

This bug is not generally a significant cause of disk space utilisation, unless you’re running a server the size of matrix.org (which is the only reason it’s marked P1).

I strongly suspect you’re thinking of a separate issue: the need to automatically expire old history and reclaim disk space in general, which was fixed a while back, as per https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/docs/messa...

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