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Matrix public archive
NB: This project is very much a work-in-progress (WIP)! Undocumented config/secrets, using a draft branch of Hydrogen, etc.
In the vein of feature parity with
Gitter, the goal is to make a
public archive site like Gitter's archives which search engines can index and
keep all of the content accessible/available. There is already
https://view.matrix.org/ (https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-static) but there
is some desire to make something with more Element-feeling polish and loading
faster (avoid the slow 502's errors that are frequent on view.matrix.org).
Plan summary
The plan is to server-side render (SSR) the
Hydrogen Matrix client on a Node.js
server (since both use JavaScript) and serve pages on the fly (probably with
some Cloudflare caching on top) when someone requests
/archives/${year}/${month}/${day}. To fetch the events for a given day/time,
we will use MSC3030's
/timestamp_to_event endpoint to jump to a given day in the timeline and fetch
the messages from a Matrix homeserver.
Re-using Hydrogen gets us pretty and native(to Element) looking styles and keeps the maintenance burden of supporting more event types in Hydrogen.
Prerequisites
- Node.js v16
- We only need v16 because it includes
require('crypto').webcrypto.subtlefor Matrix encryption (olm) which can't be disabled in Hydrogen yet.
- We only need v16 because it includes