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What is the status of / are the plans for Threads in dendrite?

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*This issue was originally created by [**@necropola**](https://github.com/necropola) at .*

This is what https://element.io/help says about **Threads**:
> In order to reliably update the list of threads in a room and their contents, your homeserver needs to support threads via MSC3440. If your home server runs Synapse, this is available in version 1.55 and above. You can ask your homeserver administrator to upgrade your server to ensure that threads are supported.
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> If your homeserver doesn't support threads, you will still be able to read and contribute to threads, but the feature might be unreliable - you might not see all threads in a room, and some messages might be missing, especially older messages. For that reason, we strongly recommend to upgrade your homeserver.

But **dendrite** still does not (fully) support **Threads** via **MSC3440** (and thread support via MSC2836 appears to be obsolete). I actually tried `element-web-v1.11.51` with `dendrite-0.13.4` and it is quite a mess when you use **Threads**, especially when users from synapse homeservers join in.

There are a lot of (Enterprise) features that I don't miss on my small (family) **dendrite** homeserver and my understanding is/was that **dendrite** (especially after ditching polylith) is especially targeted for this scenario. But I cannot even disable **Threads** in current **element** clients (or let dendrite/nginx tell the clients to please not use Threads, e. g. via `.well-known/matrix/client`) which pretty much means that **matrix.org / element.io** are pushing towards one and only one combination of server and client which is **synapse** + **element**.

... and I thought that was excatly **not** what was supposed to happen.

Also: https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite/discussions/3281

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