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title = "This Week in Matrix 2020-03-06"
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path = "/blog/2020/03/06/this-week-in-matrix-2020-03-06"
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author = ["Ben Parsons"]
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category = ["This Week in Matrix"]
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[extra]
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image = "https://matrix.org/blog/img/2020-03-06-kxlmu-image.png"
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## Matrix Live 🎙
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{{ youtube_player(video_id="iKx-RHS-p4M") }}
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## Dept of Servers 🏢
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### Dendrite / gomatrixserverlib
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[Neil Alexander](https://matrix.to/#/@neilalexander:matrix.org) said:
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> * Initial support for building for WASM with the P2P demo has been merged into the Dendrite `master` branch
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> * Initial State Resolution v2 code has been merged into gomatrixserverlib `master` branch, with wiring for Dendrite to follow shortly
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> * Further room version support is in progress
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> * Error logging now actually reports where errors happened
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> * A minor bug in the sync API has been fixed
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> * gomatrixserverlib now doesn't make unnecessary key requests over federation
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### matrix-media-repo
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[TravisR](https://github.com/turt2live) told us:
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> matrix-media-repo has early support for IPFS! Currently it's only gateway support, but in the coming days it should be possible to also upload into the IPFS world. See <https://github.com/turt2live/matrix-media-repo/issues/115#issuecomment-593772429> for details.
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### Synapse
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[richvdh](https://matrix.to/#/@richvdh:sw1v.org) said:
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> A busy week in Synapse this week! We've released Synapse 1.11.1 to fix a security problem with single-sign-on, Patrick has been putting the finishing touches to the room-alias-spam mitigation measures in [MSC2432](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2432), and Erik has been doing some exciting work in replacing the inter-process replication protocol for worker-based deployments.
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> We've also started the design work on single-sign-on support for user-interactive-auth, which we'll be starting implementation work on next week.
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Also:
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> <p lang="en" dir="ltr">Oh hello... is that Synapse replicating data streams using Redis, paving the way to multi-master Synapse clustering for arbitrary horizontal scalability!?! 😍 <a href="https://t.co/E7pcFWQEgC">pic.twitter.com/E7pcFWQEgC</a></p>— Matrix (@matrixdotorg) <a href="https://twitter.com/matrixdotorg/status/1235968592778276866?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2020</a>
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## Synapse Deployment 📥
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### multi arch synapse docker image
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[Black Hat](https://matrix.to/#/@bhat:encom.eu.org) announced:
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> I finally remembered to update my [multi arch synapse docker image](https://hub.docker.com/r/black0/synapse/) to 1.11.0. Now with more architectures!
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### Docker-matrix
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[Mathijs](https://matrix.to/#/@mathijs:matrix.vgorcum.com) offered:
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> The image for synapse 1.11.1 is now available as [avhost/docker-matrix:v1.11.1](https://hub.docker.com/r/avhost/docker-matrix) and [mvgorcum/docker-matrix:v1.11.1](https://hub.docker.com/r/mvgorcum/docker-matrix). As always these images use jemalloc and mjolnir anti-spam.
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## Dept of Bridges 🌉
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### Matrix Icinga notifier
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[Oleg](https://matrix.to/#/@oleg:fiksel.info) told us:
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> Send notifications from Icinga(1,2) to a Matrix room.
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> * <https://github.com/oleg-fiksel/matrix_icinga_notify>
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> #### v1.2.0
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> * Changed POST to PUT for sending the message to comply with the spec (https://matrix.org/docs/api/client-server/#!/Room32participation/sendMessage)
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> #### Roadmap
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> * New, cool templates from @micha:msqu.de
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> * Rewrite in Go and gomatrix (https://github.com/matrix-org/gomatrix) to have a static binary
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### mx-puppet-slack
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[sorunome](https://matrix.to/#/@sorunome:sorunome.de) said:
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> mx-puppet-slack supports `xoxc` tokens now! That means you are able to bridge slack workspaces without the need of legacy tokens or oauth - no permission from the workspace admins are required for those!
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### mx-puppet-bridge
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[mx-puppet-bridge](https://github.com/Sorunome/mx-puppet-bridge) is a general bridging library that supports (double)bridging and relays. The goal is to make it as easy as possible for others to bridge new third-party protocols to matrix. [Support room](https://matrix.to/#/#mx-puppet-bridge:sorunome.de) [Donate](https://liberapay.com/Sorunome)
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[sorunome](https://matrix.to/#/@sorunome:sorunome.de) offered:
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> * Added optional parsing of file metadata (filling in the `info` block) for images, video and audio (requires `ffprobe` to be installed)
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> * Adding advanced relays --> protocol implementations can e.g. use webhooks to display relayed messages more nicely
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> * Add userlist syncing options for rooms
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> #### mx-puppet-discord
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> * Use the advanced relay to bridge relay messages using webhooks
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> * Implement userlist syncing: The userlist on matrix now accurately reflects the discord members in that room
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### Mumble Bridge
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There is a simple [Mumble-Matrix Bridge](https://github.com/mymindstorm/matrix-appservice-mumble) available.
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> A simple Matrix to Mumble bridge. It sends messages between bridged rooms and tells you when people join / leave Murmur.
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Written in TypeScript and based on [matrix-appservice-bridge](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-bridge).
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The creator, [mymindstorm](https://matrix.to/#/@mymindstorm:evermiss.net) said:
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> Hello again, I made a public room at [#mumble-bridge:evermiss.net](https://matrix.to/#/#mumble-bridge:evermiss.net)
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## Dept of Clients 📱
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### gomuks
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[Tulir](https://matrix.to/#/@tulir:maunium.net) announced:
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> gomuks now supports sending replies, reactions and redactions with commands. You can either run the command (e.g. `/react 👍️`) first and then select the message with up/down arrows and enter, or you can click on a message to select it first and then run the command.
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### Ditto v0.3.0 Release
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[Annie](https://matrix.to/#/@annie:ditto.chat) offered:
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> Ditto is a user-friendly Matrix client for iOS and Android.
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> #### Updates
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> * Long press to show button for leaving a room
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> * Data is stored on the device, you can now browse offline
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> * More helpful error messages on login failure
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> * Show if a chat has unread messages in chat list
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> * Send typing notifications
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> * Send read receipts
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> * and a lot of other major code-quality things!
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> See the full list of changes [here](https://gitlab.com/ditto-chat/ditto-mobile/-/tags/0.3.0)
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> #### Help Wanted
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> In general, we'll welcome any help if someone would like to contribute - great way to get some experience with React Native! Just reach out!
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> If anybody has the skill set or interest, we are also looking at creating a React Native specific Matrix SDK to improve performance and allow others to develop RN clients easily.
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> ##### [Website](https://dittochat.org/) | [#ditto:ditto.chat](https://matrix.to/#/#ditto:ditto.chat) | Contact Annie
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### RiotX
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[benoit](https://matrix.to/#/@benoit.marty:matrix.org) said:
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> We have fixed several errors on file and media sending/downloading/sharing. Also we are still working on cross-signing and e2e stabilization.
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### Riot-iOS
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[Manu](https://matrix.to/#/@Manu:matrix.org) said:
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> Riot-iOS: We have fixed an issue with push notifications but we are still investigating rageshake logs before doing the release. In parallel, we are still working on cross-signing: QR code and Secret Sharing.
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### Nheko
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[Nheko](https://github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko) is a desktop client using Qt, Boost.Asio and C++17. It supports E2EE (with the notable exception being device verification for now) and intends to be full featured and nice to look at
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[Nico (@deepbluev7:neko.dev)](https://matrix.to/#/@deepbluev7:neko.dev) reported:
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> * We welcomed adasauce as an official member to the Nheko project on Github! Adasauce has been working on a lot of the smaller annoyances and layout issues.
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> * Adasauce started working on configuring what events get shown in the timeline on a per room or account wide basis.
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> * We have merged the dev branch to master, because it confused a lot of people. If your packages use 0.7.0-dev, now is the time to switch
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> * red_sky merged the dev branch and started updating everything, that depends on this branch. This includes the AUR package and our Weblate instance (for translations).
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> * Nheko now has experimental support for MSC2448. This adds a blurry preview for images (and videos) sent via nheko directly into the event body (at the cost of ~30 bytes). This considerably reduces latency until clients show something, that isn't an empty box, to preview media, since downloading the media over federation and generating a thumbnail has positive latency.
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> * Avatars should now not be blurry when using display scaling. Please report, if this is still happening to you (in the timeline or room list, there is a known issue with the user profile dialog and servers that don't do dynamic thumbnailing)
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> * Misc fixes and translation updates from multiple contributors.
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### Various Riot-theme news
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[Dylan](https://matrix.to/#/@dhmf:m.dhdf.dev) told us:
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> Selenized Light, Dark, and Black for Riot!
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> If you have your own build of riot-web you can simply modify the config.json and add this theme to it!
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> * GitHub: <https://github.com/aaronraimist/riot-web-themes#selenized-light-theme>
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I particularly like the Selenized Dark:
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Nord Light Theme for Riot is also available from [Dylan](https://matrix.to/#/@dhmf:m.dhdf.dev):
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> * GitHub: <https://github.com/aaronraimist/riot-web-themes#nord-light-theme>
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[Aaron](https://matrix.to/#/@aaron:raim.ist) said:
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> Dylan created [#riot-web-themes:m.dhdf.dev](https://matrix.to/#/#riot-web-themes:m.dhdf.dev)
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> If you use <https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/> it will automatically download and install all of the themes just by setting `matrix_riot_web_themes_enabled: true`
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## Dept of SDKs and Frameworks 🧰
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### simplematrixlib
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[swedneck](https://matrix.to/#/@swedneck:hielle.com) reported:
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> i have updated [simplematrixlib](https://gitlab.com/Swedneck/simplematrixlib) and [py-matrix-utils](https://gitlab.com/Swedneck/py-matrix-utils) adding (among other things) the ability to upload and download media, and send messages!
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> Simplematrixlib is available on PyPi.
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> simplematrixlib now also has a matrix room, [#simplematrixlib:matrix.org](https://matrix.to/#/#simplematrixlib:matrix.org) (also used for py-matrix-utils)
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## Dept of Ops 🛠
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### Kubernetes
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[Ananace](https://matrix.to/#/@ace:kittenface.studio) announced:
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> Another image bump, this time to 1.11.1
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> The accompanying Helm chart I've been writing has sadly gotten rather delayed due to prioritisations at work, so might be a bit until then.
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## Dept of Bots 🤖
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### OBS bot
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[msirringhaus](https://matrix.to/#/@msirringhaus:mozilla.org) told us:
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> During last [hackweek](https://hackweek.suse.com/), I wrote a chat bot integration in Rust for openSUSEs [Open Build Service](https://build.opensuse.org/). OBS is used for development of the openSUSE distribution and can build packages from the same sources for Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE Linux Enterprise and other distributions.
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> The bot follows given packages and pull requests and pings a room if any changes occur (build finished, PR got commented or accepted, ..).
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> Sources can be found [here](https://github.com/msirringhaus/obs_chat_bot), RPMs exist as well.
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## Dept of Interesting Projects 🛰
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### Matrix Notepad v0.2.1
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[KB1RD](https://matrix.to/#/@kb1rd:kb1rd.net) reported:
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> * Fixes some bugs
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> * Adds a new theme
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> * Allows the editing of room names
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> Unfortunately, there still are bugs. Sorry ;(
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### Final Thoughts 💭
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There's a new stickerpack available in Riot, [Diego "rehrar" Salazar](https://matrix.to/#/@rehrar:matrix.org) offered:
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> Isabella the Monero Girl is a fun sticker pack made by Cypher Stack designed to be cute, fun, and used by anyone. We hope you enjoy emoting with Isabella.
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We'll have a cool image and more info next week.
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[Tulir](https://matrix.to/#/@tulir:maunium.net) offered:
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> also working on [mautrix-manager](https://github.com/tulir/mautrix-manager), although I'm not sure if/when that'll be ready for general usage
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## Dept of Ping 🏓
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Here we reveal, rank, and applaud the homeservers with the lowest ping, as measured by [pingbot](https://github.com/maubot/echo), a [maubot](https://github.com/maubot/maubot) that you can host on your own server. Join [#ping:maunium.net](https://matrix.to/#/#ping:maunium.net) to experience the fun live, and to find out how to add YOUR server to the game.
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|Rank|Hostname|Median MS|
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|1|envs.net|378.5|
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|2|maescool.be|379|
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|3|gottliebtfreitag.de|391.5|
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|4|dodsorf.as|397|
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|5|imninja.net|418|
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|6|maunium.net|437|
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|7|shortestpath.dev|445|
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|8|midov.pl|455.5|
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|9|ocean.joedonofry.com|458|
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|10|wcore.org|469|
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## That's all I know 🏁
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See you next week, and be sure to stop by [#twim:matrix.org] with your updates!
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[#TWIM:matrix.org]: <https://matrix.to/#/#TWIM:matrix.org>
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