Blog? Matrix room versions were a mistake, an admin perspective (ft. Matterbridge & restricted)

[Mikaela]

It's pain to setup 20+ rooms at once alone, but then when you have to setup them again at once when you have "upgraded" them. And Element web and Synapse don't help at all as you have to rewrite the m.room.join_rules everywhere to point to the new room IDs

Element web doesn't even support updating Spaces (if you devtools, no one sees the upgraded Space prompt so you have two Spaces) and Synapse artificially only supports upgrading either rooms or rooms of type Space, any other type will just be lost and Synapse and Spec just blame each other on it if they remember
matrix-org/synapse#11896

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the flow is just broken, if room upgrades are a good idea, the client or server should support me at least a bit as room or Space admin, not be so much pain. The room should also have some persistent identifier staying the same across room upgrades and be immutable unlike aliases

[Mikaela]

This could be a natural sequel to https://www.aminda.eu/blog/english/2021/12/05/matrix-community-abuse-security-by-obscurity.html

[Mikaela]

This could also incorporate #273

[Mikaela]

A community on Matrix discontinued due to multiple reasons, some that I had foreseen.

• https://discuss.techlore.tech/t/matrix-community-closure/200/7