Feature Request: Send server notices to all users at once

[erebion]

Being able to send server notices to users is really useful, sending them to 1k7 users meant I had to use the dev tools of my browser to edit the amount of users that are shown to an amount that isn't officially supported.

It'd be great to be able to just choose "Send Server Notice To All Users".

[dklimpel]

Related to: #90
Missing upstream feature: matrix-org/synapse#5501

[erebion]

Synapse-Admin can already get a list of all users and you can disable rate limiting for the admin user.

matrix-org/synapse#6286

What exactly is still stopping us there?

[dklimpel]

Is the issue only the pagination for max. 1000 users?

[erebion]

Is the issue only the pagination for max. 1000 users?

Yes, I'd just need a way to select all users at once. Being able to Select 1000 ist not enough.

My suggestion: A button "Send Server Notice To All Users" and then all users get selected and I can send them all a message.

Maybe a warning that it can take a while for large servers and also that it could run into rate limiting if it has not been disabled for the user account running the action.

[Justinzobel]

Maybe a warning that it can take a while for large servers and also that it could run into rate limiting if it has not been disabled for the user account running the action.

Ideally the UI would check the user running it and give it no rate limit before starting the send.

[Justinzobel]

I've just installed this on our test instance and am liking it quite a bit. Hoping one day it will be part of Matrix itself!

[erebion]

give it no rate limit

Is there a way to do that without direct database access?

[Justinzobel]

give it no rate limit

Is there a way to do that without direct database access?

Synapse-Admin would just call the Admin API as mentioned above and then query the rate limit to ensure it succeded before sending the messages.

[Justinzobel]

Does Synapse Admin already support background job requests to the API that are detached from the UI? If so this mass sending is already possible. I only ask if it can handle background jobs as large servers would cause a UI timeout while waiting for the send to finish.

[roughnecks]

How do I select all local users?