Continuous cache or "sync" of a chatroom as alternative to "Export Chat"

[jittygitty]

Your use case

What would you like to do?

To always have an 'up-to-date' version of a chat, locally as HTML with attachments/embedded images. Once configured/set it should keep it synced without user intervention.

Why would you like to do it?

Currently "Export Chat" doesn't seem to work too well (see #1145 ) and even if it did, the big problem is it requires constant user intervention to "Re-Export Chat", I don't even think there's an "incremental export" option, so not ideal at all.

How would you like to achieve it?

By asking the magic genie? Anyway, I guess there could be some automatic incremental sync that's triggered whenever a message is sent/received in room.

Not sure if the better approach would be leveraging existing caching mechanism and expanding on that.

Have you considered any alternatives?

Considered server side methods but am using sqlite at moment so seems client side would be better place to do it and have it officially instead of hacking my server etc.

Additional context

I think in general we need some good way to "backup" or chats. This includes backup to local clients but server backups or realtime syncs to other servers would be good.

[t3chguy]

This got closed by the product team previously - mirroring that.

Duplicate of element-hq/element-web#25559

I suggest raising it as a discussion in https://github.com/vector-im/element-meta/issues