Matrix

In April, we introduced policy servers to help tackle the spread of harmful content on Matrix. Today, we’re announcing that our implementation is available as open source. Say hello to policyserv v1!

Source code: https://github.com/matrix-org/policyserv

I'm trying to migrate over one of my smaller Discord groups to Matrix. There are obvious UX shortcomings, but most of them are no big deal and worth it for getting away from an enshittifying platform.

I created a Space, and inside of it created several Rooms. The Rooms are all encrypted, and set "Access: Space members", and were initially set "Who can read history? Members only (since the point in time of selecting this option)".

I thought this should mean that if I create a new Room (with that setting) in my Space, send some messages, and the others later join the Room, they would be able to see the messages. Unfortunately, this did not appear to be the case. Does anyone know what these options actually do?

Unfortunately, the official documentation on the Element website is particularly unhelpful:

From here the options are self-explanatory, simply change as desired to meet your requirements.

The other options, Members only (since they were invited) and Members only (since they joined) are also a bit unclear, in the context of a Space. Is someone "invited" from the moment they receive an invitation to a Space that automatically grants entry to a Room? Had they "joined" from when they joined the Space, or only upon joining the specific Room? (I would assume the latter, but considering my assumption about the first option was evidently wrong, I'm considering anything to be possible.)

Bridges are one of the reasons Matrix is called Matrix: let’s matrix all the networks together! They are key to onboard new users into the network. However, maintaining and operating bridges, in particular to closed, proprietary platforms, is expensive: they need to be kept up to date with any change made by the platform on a regular basis and they’re fiddly to keep up and running.

I've joined a few communities, but most seem to be pretty dead. Any recommendations would be welcome. Size doesn't matter, all that matters is that they are active.

I’m looking for an Icelandic or Irish server for lower latency.

minor bug fixes but good version number

The Matrix.org homeserver ^[2]^ is currently experiencing a "major outage" ^[1.1]^ — the server is currently offline ^[1.3]^. The timeline of events is currently (2025-09-03T00:14Z) as follows:

• On 2025-09-02T17:39Z, an issue with the matrix.org database was reported by status.matrix.org ^[1.3]^.
• At 2025-09-02T19:01:27Z, the Matrix.org Foundation later reported that the matrix.org secondary database lost its filesystem at 2025-09-02T11:17Z, and subsequently lost its primary database filesystem at 2025-09-02T17:26Z. ^[5]^
• At 2025-09-02T21:39:25Z, the Matrix.org Foundation reported that they were unable to restore the primary database filesystem, so they are restoring a 55TB database snapshot from the previous night. This restoration is expected to take more than 10 hours to recover the data, then greater than 4 hours to restore the data, then greater than 3 hours to catch up on missing traffic. ^[6]^