matrix-org/matrix-viewer

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View the history of public and world readable Matrix rooms

Stars: 84
Forks: 10
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 57

Dominant language: JavaScript
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Mar 27, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted
PR merge metrics: No merged PRs in 30d

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57 open issues indexed

Liveliness check Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#288 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 31, 2025
"Try it out: view.matrix.org" leads to messages from years ago and "There are no newer messages yet." Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#284 · Opened Sep 1, 2023
The Matrix Public Archive is on hold Open

T-Other

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#273 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 26, 2023
Search should return private rooms where the bot is already in or invited to (`world_readable`) Open

T-Other

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#271 · 9 comments · Opened Jun 22, 2023
Bot repeatedly kicked from Libera-bridged room (IRC) Open

T-Other

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#264 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 8, 2023
Part/leave rooms after archive is not checked for a while Open

T-Other Z-Confidence-Low

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#260 · 5 comments · Opened Jun 1, 2023
Add empty placeholder when there are no rooms to display Open

A-room-directory help wanted T-Enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 42/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#255 · Opened May 30, 2023
Occasionally assets fail to load (404) Open

A-archive-room-view A-backend T-Defect

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#254 · Opened May 30, 2023
CloudFlare email protection Open

A-archive-room-view T-Other

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#250 · 1 comment · Opened May 30, 2023
Redacted events show `This message is being deleted…` Open

A-archive-room-view help wanted hydrogen T-Defect

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 35/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#249 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 30, 2023
Reply missing from timeline: `This reply could not be found` Open

A-archive-room-view help wanted T-Defect

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#246 · 3 comments · Opened May 30, 2023
Consider improving the wording for room timeline pagination Open

A-archive-room-view T-Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#245 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened May 30, 2023
❗ Unable to fetch rooms from room directory exception: `Invalid server name: action:add-new-server` Open

A-room-directory T-Defect

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#244 · Opened May 30, 2023
Use URL hash fragment anchor for message permalink, add `id` attribute of message to jump on it Open

A-archive-room-view T-Enhancement Z-Confidence-Low

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#238 · 7 comments · Opened May 29, 2023
Add intra-app pill link action to matrix.to links Open

A-archive-room-view help wanted T-Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#236 · 1 reaction · Opened May 29, 2023
Autolinking should not stop when encountering first `&` Open

A-archive-room-view A-SSR help wanted T-Defect

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#235 · 3 comments · Opened May 29, 2023
Add room allowlist to configuration Open

T-Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#234 · 3 comments · Opened May 28, 2023
Add RSS feed for Matrix room Open

A-archive-room-view T-Enhancement Z-Confidence-Medium

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#233 · Opened May 27, 2023
Provide dark theme Open

T-Enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#230 · 1 comment · Opened May 22, 2023
Hide noisy `m.room.member` events until Hydrogen collapses into summaries Open

A-archive-room-view T-Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#223 · Opened May 6, 2023
Add link to project so people can easily find the source and start contributing Open

help wanted T-Enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#219 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened May 5, 2023
Date headers appear timezone dependent and sometimes appear at the bottom Open

A-archive-room-view hydrogen T-Defect

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#217 · 1 reaction · Opened May 5, 2023
Archive shouldn't have jump links into the future - `You can't view the history of a room on a future day` error Open

A-archive-room-view help wanted T-Enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#215 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 5, 2023
Latest day in archive is disabled/enabled based on the scroll Open

A-archive-room-view T-Defect

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#210 · Opened May 4, 2023
When linking to the Matrix Public Archive, make sure URL previews look good Open

help wanted T-Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#202 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 29, 2023
Reactions pulsate/glow Open

A-archive-room-view help wanted hydrogen T-Defect

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#201 · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 28, 2023
Prevent date headers from appearing for rogue events that appear in the future Open

A-archive-room-view hydrogen T-Enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#198 · Opened Apr 27, 2023
Add message search functionality Open

T-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#192 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 26, 2023
Optimize JS bundles Open

A-performance T-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#176 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 21, 2023
Add e2e tests that use fully timestamp massaged rooms Open

A-testing T-Task

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#169 · Opened Apr 13, 2023
Add `+1` and `-1` day indicators in the local time Open

A-archive-room-view help wanted T-Enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#163 · Opened Apr 4, 2023
Add traffic metrics Open

A-metrics T-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#162 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 30, 2023
Use `@testing-library/dom` to find elements in tests Open

A-testing T-Task

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#161 · Opened Mar 25, 2023
Should we have a sitemap for better SEO? Open

A-room-directory T-Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#158 · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 12, 2023
Add embeddable view of rooms for people to put on their own websites Open

T-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#157 · 4 comments · 14 reactions · Opened Feb 3, 2023
The Hydrogen SDK is hard to use and requires a lot of boilerplate Open

hydrogen T-Task

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#152 · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 5, 2022
Update message timestamp to link to Matrix Public Archive permalink `?at=$xxx` Open

A-archive-room-view help wanted T-Enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#137 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 11, 2022
Permalink scroll is lost when images load in (not stable) Open

A-archive-room-view T-Defect

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#125 · Opened Nov 3, 2022
Add warning when permalink event ID is not found on page Open

A-archive-room-view T-Enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#124 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 3, 2022
Follow discussion continued in other room Open

A-archive-room-view help wanted hydrogen T-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#113 · Opened Oct 28, 2022
Disable search form after submission Open

A-room-directory T-Enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#109 · Opened Oct 24, 2022
Add error page Open

T-Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#97 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 21, 2022
Add custom favicon Open

T-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#94 · 4 comments · Opened Oct 20, 2022
Add a way to inspect room members Open

A-archive-room-view help wanted T-Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#78 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 13, 2022
Load messages after the given day Open

A-archive-room-view T-Defect

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#72 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 20, 2022
Explore replacing our `RethrownError` with native canonical `new Error(message, { cause: rethrownError })` Open

dev-notes T-Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#63 · Opened Sep 2, 2022
Running the Hydrogen render process in `child_process` is slow Open

A-performance A-SSR A-tracing T-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#49 · Opened Aug 29, 2022
Opting Out Open

T-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#47 · 58 comments · 12 reactions · Opened Aug 6, 2022
Add response time metrics (keep track when the page timeouts) Open

A-metrics A-tracing T-Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#45 · Opened Jul 29, 2022
Add pagination metadata to the `<head>` Open

A-archive-room-view T-Enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

matrix-org/matrix-viewer#39 · Opened Jul 7, 2022

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