A confirmed, yet still not resolved bug caused me and about 200 other people lose data (metadata) for tons of files. Well, at least 200 reacted to the GitHub bugreport I filled. I think you can easily find it because it’s the most upvoted yet unresolved issue.

Besides this, it’d often give random errors and just not function properly. My favorites are the unexplained file locks: My brother in Christ, what do you mean error while deleting a file. It’s 2023 holy shit, just delete the damn file. It’s ridiculously unreliable and fragile. They have tons, thousands of bugreports open - yet they focus on pushing new, unwanted social features to become the new facebook and zoom. They definitely should focus on fixing the foundation first.

Paperless, immich. seafile, nextcloud, minecraft, home-assistant, pihole, jellyfin - they all improve my or my family’s life.

Well, I’d assume 8GB ram (ddr4 3200) dedicated to it and 4-6 ryzen (5700x) cores should be enough. Especially if I’m planning to host it for a max of… 30 users.

Thank you! I might give it a try again.

Are they federated? Did you change anything from the default / recommend settings?

Well, I can’t recall every minute detail I’ve delt with a year ago. I shared my past experience and asked if it would be more or less the same.

Oh, so you never even had a matrix server hosted, but you’re telling me I’m wrong. Hahaha!

Sorry - so the default, recommended settings try to cache absolutely everything from a single group, including cat gifs posted 5 years ago? I’m sorry, but I expected the default settings more… sane?

Well, I wanted to try hosting myself, since I love self hosting things and people keep repeating how amazing Matrix is - my experience (waiting 20 minutes to join a single group, or it simply failing) didn’t convince me. It’s possible that I’m the wrong here, in that case I’m happy to hear solutions.

Not waiting 20 minutes in 2023 for a messaging platform to sync if I join a single group with default settings.