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		feanaro on July 7, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Element (Matrix) launches Chatterbox, end-to-end e... Modern sync (sliding sync, v3 sync) only helps with non-encrypted rooms. For encrypted rooms, it degrades to essentially the old sync v2 performance.

jeroenhd on July 8, 2022 [–]

That's true, but most rooms where this is a problem (the huge ones) aren't encrypted. There's no way you're going to cross-verify everyone in a room with 4000 users in it so encryption in such rooms is essentially useless.

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