I know Synapse has few contributors outside of the Element company, but I just read this blog post about how Element is keeping the good Synapse code, increasingly rewritten in Rust so that it doesn't perform like a garbage barge, completely proprietary:
https://element.io/blog/scaling-to-millions-of-users-requires-synapse-pro/
Why would anybody contribute to the legacy Python code which this post makes clear is not scalable and is not good enough to sell? Surely it's a self fulfilling prophecy.
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@jmc It's a shame. I love the idea behind matrix, but most channels I visit are either dead or full of crypto-scam-bots. And now this, it's like a punch into anybodies face who is still using it.
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@fx In its defence, I use it for critical things at work, for open source, and amongst friends. I don't have the spam problems, just all the other problems of looking after a couple of Synapse homeservers -- not to mention users who often hit issues with the Element clients themselves.
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@jmc But in the post it says regular Synapse scales to 50k concurrent users.
Surely that has to be enough for most deployments.
They do have to earn money somehow and making super-large instances, that require significant financial resources to maintain the deployment anyhow, pay for the product is as fair as I can imagine it to be.
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@jmc it makes sense - I think they want it to remain insufferable to incentivize people to pay for their proprietary version
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