matrix-org/matrix-static

A static golang generated preview of public world readable Matrix rooms.

matrix-static's Issues

LRU to expire spidering of rooms if nobody is actively viewing them

to stop spidering accumulating steadily over time until it takes out synapse

Provide stylesheet file

Hi, @t3chguy!

I've read about your work at Matrix.org status update

After visiting your Heroku app I would like to ask you, whether you could add a CSS file instead of styling inline? This way, web designers could use Stylish/edit the stylesheet using browser developer tools and send a PR with an updated stylesheet without needing to know, how to build a local version of the website.

Do you have any mockups on how you would like to see the app look like?

Invalid redirection URL

The following URL is generated from matrix.to for the matrix-static client:

https://view.matrix.org/room/!qIEpwTKYYJECuPNzlt:flying-snail-matrix.nsupdate.info?via=flying-snail-matrix.nsupdate.info&via=matrix.org

Calling this redirects to the following, obviously invalid, URL:

https://matrix.orgroom/!qIEpwTKYYJECuPNzlt:flying-snail-matrix.nsupdate.info?via=flying-snail-matrix.nsupdate.info&via=matrix.org

(server "matrix.orgroom" cannot be found)

Markup feeds with microformats2

Marking up each room as a microformats2 h-feed of h-entry messages would provide a simple way of beginning to bridge matrix to the indieweb people.

view.matrix.org seems to be fussy about trailing slashes

this 404s https://view.matrix.org/room/!MeRdFpEonLoCwhoHeT:matrix.org
but https://view.matrix.org/room/!MeRdFpEonLoCwhoHeT:matrix.org/ dosen't

allow user to specify timezone

check health of servers on server page

to allow estimating how many servers are dead

Option to auto-join rooms

as this would allow access to history of rooms without History=Anyone

/alias/:roomAlias endpoint to redirect to relevant room if public, else show pretty not a public guest peekable room

like members,servers, a page listing aliases would be neato

investigate weirdness

missing events around https://matrix.to/#/!cURbafjkfsMDVwdRDQ:matrix.org/$1505156376191nQoHj:hackerspace.be - https://view.matrix.org/room/!cURbafjkfsMDVwdRDQ:matrix.org/?anchor=$1505157767553rZqNm:riot.ovh&offset=20

searchable room directory

probably locally rather than via the filtered part of the API

how can I host this on a subpath?

I'd like to run this on a /view/ folder, is that possible?

Support viewing groups

match colours of generated avatars

or maybe we don't care because afaik synapse/whatever will eventually offer to generate them for us

Instructions for non-docker install don't work on linux

qtc: command not found. No vendor directory.

filter out NSFW rooms

allow /alias/ endpoint to omit the `#`

link to back to room rather than room list

/servers and /members links to rooms rather than the room they are of, fixxy

Do we set URLs, Etags & caching headers to ensure search engines don't respider the same content?

Right now google is hammering matrix.org by indexing view.matrix.org. Do we ensure that the historical pages have nice unique URLs, Etags and have a suitably massive caching header to ensure that Google doesn't go and try to reindex the whole thing again a few days later?

consider allowing the user to be invited into a room

to get around the public peekable requirement

Display link for files

Zip, Image, Audio, Video files are shown as m.file.Event, instead there should be a link to download that file.

Room name first in the title

Nit: with the name last, and more than one room open, there's no at-a-glance distinction between rooms:

Consider naming the room first.

For example, instead of the current arrangement:

Matrix Static - Public Room Timeline - Manjaro

– this:

Manjaro – public timeline – Matrix Static

in /aliases, denote canonical alias visually

Don't require a trailing slash on request routes

it shouldn't care if there is or isn't a slash there

fix readme hosted-at link

rate-limit synapse calls

Add support for pinned messages

matrix-static does not start if initial request to client/r0/publicRooms times out

When starting, matrix-static can panic mid-startup when it's doing it's initial sync of publicRooms:

panic: Get <<REDACTED - client/r0/publicRooms url with access token>>: net/http: request canceled (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers)

goroutine 1 [running]:
github.com/t3chguy/matrix-static/mxclient.(*Client).NewWorldReadableRooms(0xc4202d90a0, 0xd)
        /home/matrixstatic/matrix-static/src/github.com/t3chguy/matrix-static/mxclient/public-rooms.go:53 +0x8d
main.main()
        /home/matrixstatic/matrix-static/src/github.com/t3chguy/matrix-static/matrix-static.go:93 +0x368
error: Forever detected script exited with code: 2

This isn't particularly fatal, we can just restart matrix-static until it completes, but adding a longer timeout may be useful here.

panic

[GIN] 2019/02/09 - 11:35:10 | 200 ESC[0m|  985.490869ms | 54.36.148.31 |  ESC[0m GET     /api/room/!byVSIeqgYCNgmluYKv:outcasts.win/
time="2019-02-09T11:35:36Z" level=info msg="Started Initial Syncing Room" roomID="!AEhkQDKeSJvwkKyIHq:matrix.org" worker=14
time="2019-02-09T11:35:38Z" level=info msg="Finished Initial Syncing Room" roomID="!AEhkQDKeSJvwkKyIHq:matrix.org" worker=14
panic: runtime error: slice bounds out of range

goroutine 41 [running]:
main.RoomMembersJob.Work(0xc4331f01ee, 0x1e, 0x0, 0x14, 0xc420ed7ce0)
        /home/matrixstatic/matrix-static/src/github.com/t3chguy/matrix-static/job-room-members.go:41 +0x687
main.(*RoomMembersJob).Work(0xc420dd9540, 0xc420ed7ce0)
        <autogenerated>:7 +0x72
main.(*Worker).Start(0xc420ed7ce0)
        /home/matrixstatic/matrix-static/src/github.com/t3chguy/matrix-static/workers.go:38 +0x75
created by main.NewWorker
        /home/matrixstatic/matrix-static/src/github.com/t3chguy/matrix-static/workers.go:88 +0x141

linked messages should be centered rather than at the bottom

When linking to this message:
https://view.matrix.org/room/!ChuQQIVJvwyJujhNIG:synapse.keyvan.pw/?anchor=$152456240720927yUzQv:matrix.org&highlight

The event gets placed at the bottom of the scrollback. I think it would be preferred to center the linked event right in the middle of the page. Is that doable? Thanks.

fallback to generated avatar onerror

Sanity check API parameters

We don't validate that page is >= 0, so we can panic when we attempt to access negative indices in an array.

panic: runtime error: slice bounds out of range

goroutine 61 [running]:
main.RoomMembersJob.Work(0xc4203ae0fe, 0x1e, 0xfffffffffffffffe, 0x14, 0xc420de00c0)
/home/matrixstatic/matrix-static/src/github.com/t3chguy/matrix-static/job-room-members.go:41 +0x687
main.(*RoomMembersJob).Work(0xc421ae0420, 0xc420de00c0)
:7 +0x72
main.(*Worker).Start(0xc420de00c0)
/home/matrixstatic/matrix-static/src/github.com/t3chguy/matrix-static/workers.go:38 +0x75
created by main.NewWorker
/home/matrixstatic/matrix-static/src/github.com/t3chguy/matrix-static/workers.go:88 +0x141

Incorporate UI from globau/logbot

Long way off but I'd love to see the UI of logbot (IRC log viewer) incorporated into matrix-static

You can see it running here: https://mozilla.logbot.info/firefox/20181114

Test Issue

https://matrix.to/#/#matrix:matrix.org is cool

Display separate Matrix message in page via message id

At now Matrix Static can display rooms with messages, but there are no way to display only one specific message. Will be good to have ability for display only one message in webpage by message id.

Add ability to whitelist the rooms matrix-static can show per-instance

Handle room upgrades

It would be nice if it could handle room upgrades in a similar way to Riot's interface. An example of an upgraded room is https://view.matrix.org/room/!FyQrGcOoVamcLcvdob:matrix.org/ to https://view.matrix.org/room/!yjVgJUsMLYLAONsoii:jki.re/

Make it obvious how to join a room

I only found out about /aliases by accident, and was otherwise left quite confused trying to join a room I found on view.matrix.org. A fat button in the top right taking me to matrix.to might make sense. Thanks for your consideration.

Fix html errors found by w3 validator

See e.g. https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Fview.matrix.org%2Froom%2F%21cURbafjkfsMDVwdRDQ%3Amatrix.org%2F

Primary errors seem to be not including an alt attribute on <img> tags and using using nowrap attribute on <td> element is considered obsolete.

I'm not really sure what we should be putting as image alt-texts, but according to w3, something does have to be there.

workaround federation inpeekability

I feel like the horrific hack to work around the federation peeking issue is to have static try and register a guest account on whatever HS it's trying to look at (probably (and horrifically) based on room id) - Cadair

Room list – Public Rooms, view.matrix.org/?page=0 – relatively slow, heavyweight

https://view.matrix.org/?page=0

Around fifty seconds to load finish when e.g. the network console is open, in Firefox 71.0, before loading the page.

Then a waiting period before the application becomes responsive, but this is probably an issue with Firefox. Screen recording:

2019-12-30 15:45 Firefox 71.0.zip

Not so long when web developer tools are in use but still, it's remarkably slow to load in some browsers.

Support ?via= on room/event permalinks

proposal: matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals#1704

Display events of type `im.vector.modular.widgets`

Matrix-static should match the events displayed by Riot probably. Splitting out from #41

when event resolution fails, show better error

Remove code for handling unknown types in room-chat.qtpl template

it looks to me like matrix-static should display "Cannot Understand Event" when it gets an event with a type it doesn't recognize, but instead, it just doesn't display that event.

check if /assets/ folder is accessible on start-up

to prevent people running in wrong working directory and wondering why it looks even worse :(

Todo List

• Historical Member Info
• make Peeking more useful (pagination etc)
• investigate additional meta useful for spidering
• make cache invalidate after N requests or M minutes
• sort memberlist
• paginate memberlist
• linkify-js style thing
• handle redactions
• sanitize unbalanced closing tags
• don't backpaginate if has reached m.room.create / smart about m.room.history_visibility

Renderers for common events:

• m.text
• m.emote
• m.notice
• html formatted m.text/m.emote/m.notice
• m.image
• m.file
• m.location
• m.video
• m.audio

Renderers for room state changes:

• m.room.member
• m.room.name
• m.room.topic
• m.room.avatar
• m.room.third_party_invite
• m.room.power_levels
• m.room.history_visibility -ish?
• m.room.join_rules

Older direct links stop working

I opened this message direct link from Jul 5

https://view.matrix.org/room/!wSdymYrEpBhsWlDJuk:decred.org/?anchor=$153090455433548QNlFj:decred.org

and it showed "Some error has occurred". Then I removed the anchor part from the URL to open latest messages in the room and pressed "Load older messages" until I reached Jul 5 and it showed the message I was after. Then I visited initial direct link again and it opened.

Example of direct link that doesn't work (until someone visits it via "Load older messages"):

https://view.matrix.org/room/!OfChXgczrIlpEZSFAv:decred.org/?anchor=$153125687135698lmQRO:decred.org

No names for people without names

Should probably fall back to something, otherwise the list looks weird: https://view.matrix.org/room/!zxWLnBMJtBomyQlnRV:tang.ents.ca/members?page=1 (see bottom or page 2)