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Element has. The app on the other side

I think it's unlikely that this chatbox has export functionality

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With E2EE I don't think you can even implement a reliable export on the server side.

It seems like Element is limited to only exporting a single room, though. You need something like https://gitlab.com/argit/matrix-recorder/ to export all messages, it seems.

> With E2EE I don't think you can even implement a reliable export on the server side.

Can't you use your client key(s)?

The client would have to fetch all your messages first. Some rooms can have thousands of messages a day, and some people are in thousands of rooms [1] (though these are core developers so they might be stress testing)

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32021303

but you would hopefully not export all messages every time? incremental?

If you wanted automated exports I think an easier way would be to host your own homeserver, and create your account on that homeserver. I believe any messages in any rooms you join will be synced with your homeserver, and you can perform automated full backups (or maybe incremental backups if the database supports it?)

> Element has. The app on the other side

Which is currently broken and has been for some time. If you export a room, images will not show in the final exported chat.

> Element has

it has if the the person who you are chatting with didn't already delete their comment (unless you host your own server and modified it to keep a log of everything)

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