Matrix Live S08E08 — Blazing fast room joins

Our guest today is Rich, to talk about how the Synapse team is hard at work to hunt those pesky spinners. Faster room joins now? Yes! But only for the brave

00:00 Hello
00:50 Let's dive in local and remote room joins
08:06 Summarising what is a local and a remote room
08:38 Who is the most likely to experience slow room joins
09:41 Does your work improve local, remote joins, or both?
10:10 So how did you speed up joins?
11:06 What are the consequences of this work?
12:06 Are those changes only about Synapse, or is it a protocol change?
12:29 Are we talking about "lazy loading over federation"?
12:48 Is it available today?
13:36 Am I at risk by enabling it?
14:43 Can I try it with every client?
15:28 Is it related to sliding sync, or does it conflict with it?
16:04 More performance improvements to come?
17:13 Anything we forgot to mention?

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