2026-03-13 State of the Matrix

• Date: 2026-03-13
• Participants: piegames, Raito, hexchen, Qyriad,
• Topic: Community team discussion on Lix's Matrix server, space, and channels

Conclusion / Action items

• Make a backup the current database
  • Owner: @afnix @raito
• Check the PL levels are what they should to allow removing Draupnir
  • Owner: @piegames
• Get rid of Draupnir
  • Owner: @piegames
• Nuke our server and deploy a Synapse
  • Writing a plan and a rollback plan incrementally
    • Owner: @hexchen @raito
  • Execute the plan in a distant future afternoon (post-LixCon)
    • Owner: @hexchen @raito
• Announce the consolidation plan on blog + Matrix announcements
  • Owner: @piegames
• Tombstone and redo the #space:lix.systems room to heal the split brain
  • Consolidate the rooms via tombstones
  • Upgrade all our rooms to v12 via tombstones
  • Owner: @hexchen @piegames
• Update our documentation
  • Owner: @piegames

Meeting notes / Discussion

• State of the current Matrix issues
  • Draupnir is broken, homeserver is broken, also possible network split
• piegames: So, how much Matrix do we want
• Raito: architecture proposal
  • The core issue is the way we deploy Matrix
  • If we just do a boring synapse thing we should have far fewer issues
  • piegames:
    • issues with draupnir
    • room state issues
    • e.g. draupnir issues aren't necessarily homeserver problems
      • likewise with room state desyncs
    • Swapping homeserver is necessary but not sufficient
  • Matrix, unfortunately, is currently one of the main ways people get involved in the Lix project
• piegames:
  • Reduce number of rooms
  • Remove Draupnir and do manual moderation
    • hexchen: we lose importing bans from NixOS moderation
      • …But that ship kind of sailed anyway
    • Raito: are they even doing bans rn anyway
    • hexchen: don't think so
      • We don't have a lot of common ground with them at this point
  • Once we replace Draupnir, our server has zero state
    • The things that matter can be recovered via federation
  • Should we consolidate rooms?
    • Right now we have (besides moderation rooms):
      • Lix Dev
      • Lix Off Topic
      • Lix
      • Lix on main
      • #off-topic
      • Lix project infrastructure
      • Community
      • Announcements
      • functional2
      • Nix lang 2
    • Raito: kill Lix Dev, Lix on main, Community, Nix lang 2, Lix project infrastructure
    • piegames: Maybe keep Lix on main
      • It has better SNR than the Lix
      • Qyriad: I agree
      • raito: fine with it
  • hexchen: we need to make sure draupnir allow to elevate the other users to the right privilege level we want
  • hexchen: re: room v12
    • All members of the community team should be set as Founders