Matrix/Synapse Admin Interface
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Sorry if this is in the wrong place (and also if someone has asked this already I couldn't find it), but I found an admin interface that is being worked on for Synapse that allows easy access to some common admin level things that at this point in time are pretty hard to use in this implementation (at least for me). Is there any chance we could potentially add this (hosted through cloudron instead of run locally) and get it integrated with our matrix servers? I understand if we are waiting for the team to officially roll out an admin interface but I don't know how long that will take. Just curious.
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yes that is the right place to bring this up. Adding an admin UI would be great indeed. The git repo for this is apparently https://github.com/Awesome-Technologies/synapse-admin
I just wonder how well this will work and stay in-sync with synapse itself?
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Would be great if a UI is folded into the main project itself. I would think the frontend and backend will eventually go out of sync, no?
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That would be my concern yeah. I suppose it the balance of maintainability of the package and potential quicker release. Imo I'd wait until something like this is integrated into the synapse main project.
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I just pinged one of my friends over at the Matrix team and this is what he said:
*I wouldn't wait until we add an admin interface of our own as that's not really in the plans for the next 18 months.
We tend to keep our admin APIs fairly stable and warn people when we add backwards-incompatible changes though (lots of people rely on them).So I think the dangers of the 3rd party dashboard getting out of sync are overblown, as long as the project continues to be maintained.*
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@robi Huh fair enough. I'm all on board for this to be added then.
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Any further thoughts on this with the above feedback? I have been able to run that locally myself easily with the instance of Matrix I have setup through Cloudron. Unfortunately I don't know much about all the dev stuff you all go through so I can't say how hard it would be to get that working well through Cloudron. But it took me around 5 minutes to get it running and working for all of my instances of Matrix. Basically once it is setup you just need the single instance and then you specify which Matrix instance you are logging into as an admin. Login will fail if you aren't using an account that has been made a Matrix Server Admin. But basically we would just need a single instance and that single instance could manage any and all Matrix instances even those outside of Cloudron itself.
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@ericdrgn Since this will most likely get packaged as a separate app, you can open a new post here - https://forum.cloudron.io/category/5/app-wishlist . We simply pick things from there based on interest/upvotes. Aside from that, I think it makes sense to have this packaged .
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@girish Done, thanks!
