mattia
November 15, 2021, 4:25pm
#1
I’m using Element Desktop for connecting to Fedora rooms and in all rooms I always see all users as offline (mine too).
Searching online I’ve found a couple of bugs opened Matrix side which make me think that Fedora Matrix server has the presence feature turned off:
opened 04:43PM - 30 Nov 16 UTC
closed 05:10PM - 27 Feb 21 UTC
T-Defect
P1
S-Major
A-Member-List
Z-Infra
A-Presence
No matter what client I use (android, iOs, web) my status is offline in the room… details and member section.
Sometimes it's "Offline 4s ago" and the "4s ago" may represent the last time I posted a message.
Here are some logs from browser (chrome) : https://gist.github.com/jeangb/0cccd6b1a2093228e3064ddb05beeb91
opened 11:20AM - 24 Feb 21 UTC
T-Task
Presence is a feature of matrix that allows users to share their online/offline/… unavailable status with other remote and local users, as well as present a status message. Traditionally this feature has been turned off in all major deployments due to its enormous performance costs. We'd like to turn it back on, and this issue is a collection of other issues that may help us get there.
There is currently no timeline for these tasks.
- https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8956 ([fix #1](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/9425))
- https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8955
- https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/9415
- https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/9339
- ~~Moving presence work off of the master process~~ done in https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/9761
This is a feature that I really miss from IRC, is it possible to turn it on?
1 Like
mattdm
November 15, 2021, 4:42pm
#2
I’ll ask. I don’t think we turned it off intentionally.
mattdm
November 16, 2021, 3:15pm
#3
I’m told that it’s off on all federated servers, because of the performance issues.
mattia
November 16, 2021, 5:23pm
#4
I hope it can be turned on in near future.
well, that’s definitely a regression from IRC.