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# Matrix public archive
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**NB: This project is very much a work-in-progress (WIP)!** Undocumented
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config/secrets, using a draft branch of Hydrogen, etc.
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In the vein of [feature parity with
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Gitter](https://github.com/vector-im/roadmap/issues/26), the goal is to make a
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public archive site like Gitter's archives which search engines can index and
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keep all of the content accessible/available. There is already
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https://view.matrix.org/ (https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-static) but there
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is some desire to make something with more Element-feeling polish and loading
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faster (avoid the slow 502's errors that are frequent on `view.matrix.org`).
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## Plan summary
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The plan is to server-side render (SSR) the
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[Hydrogen](https://github.com/vector-im/hydrogen-web) Matrix client on a Node.js
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server (since both use JavaScript) and serve pages on the fly (probably with
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some Cloudflare caching on top) when someone requests
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`/archives/${year}/${month}/${day}`. To fetch the events for a given day/time,
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we will use [MSC3030](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/3030)'s
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`/timestamp_to_event` endpoint to jump to a given day in the timeline and fetch
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the messages from a Matrix homeserver.
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Re-using Hydrogen gets us pretty and native(to Element) looking styles and keeps
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the maintenance burden of supporting more event types in Hydrogen.
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2022-02-15 20:33:31 -07:00
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## Prerequisites
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- Node.js v17
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- We only need v17 because it includes `require('crypto').webcrypto`
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