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Brendan Abolivier
Personal blog · brendan.abolivier.bzhsystemsprogramming
Brendan Abolivier's personal blog at brendan.abolivier.bzh covers systems and programming. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Implementing support for message retention policies in Matrix”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite Brendan Abolivier's post on Matrix retention policies, a write-up from an Element developer, when discussing chat history storage in Matrix and XMPP. Both comments only cite it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Some guy sharing his knowledge and thoughts with whoever wants to read it.
Most-linked posts?
- Implementing support for message retention policies in Matrix3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-01-11
What Hacker News says?
There is some development in that area. This is from an Element dev, apparently. Not sure if this is very up to date as it’s from about a year ago, but it seems highly topical. https://brendan.abolivier.bzh/matrix-retention-policies/ https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/develop/docs/mess...
Comment linking /matrix-retention-policies/
on “Mozilla Thunderbird Beta now supports Matrix chat”Submitted Enter the Matrix – A technical overview and guide to all things Matrix as a story · 277 points
HN discussion> who support ephemeral discussions and/or an explicit data retention policies Matrix's variant of that: https://brendan.abolivier.bzh/matrix-retention-policies/ > In case that wasn't clear, in the XMPP model, the backlog for a room is kept on the room's server, not on every individual home server. In Which makes your history dependent on a plethora of different servers. Result: very bad usability > replicated on al…
Comment linking /matrix-retention-policies/
on “XMPP: Admin-in-the-middle”Submitted Implementing support for message retention policies in Matrix as a story · 4 points
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HN discussionSubmitted The Quest for Equivalent Exchange – Supporting Exchange in Thunderbird as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Quest for Equivalent Exchange – Supporting Exchange in Thunderbird as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Implementing message retention policies in Matrix as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Install Party 1.0: manage ephemeral hosts for workshops on Matrix homeservers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Make Your Own Google Drive with Nextcloud, Collabora Online and Object Storage as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Grafana Dashboards Manager – Manage your Grafana dashboards through Git as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Centralising logs with rsyslog and parsing them with Graylog extractors as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Supporting Exchange and beyond as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Message Retention Policies in Matrix as a story · 1 points
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