Re:Cerulean: Experimental micro-blogging app for Matrix
by Arathorn on Saturday December 19, 2020 @05:10PM
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yup, rooms are lightweight - not much heavier than just sending a message. I suspect the only reason that people assume they are heavyweight is psychological because in real life rooms are... heavy :)
Totally agreed that turning Cerulean into a Disqus-clone would be awesome; hopefully someone will pick it up and do so!
I think something like Cerulean may even be a better idea. It would probably be straightforward to just make every blog post create a corresponding Cerulean/Matrix post and then have a link to it automatically inserted into the bottom of the post.
One question I have, though, is how performant it is to have thousands and thousands of these small Matrix rooms around. Are rooms that lightweight? One for each post seems like it could be a lot, but I'm not familiar with the intended internals for servers to use in how they represent rooms.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25336352