| 22 May 2025 |
 emily | hmm I just sent a custom event here and nothing showed up | 06:40:14 |
 uep | well, not in the room that's been tombstoned, because there's no input box :facepal; | 06:40:21 |
| emily | can you have secret conversations nobody using normal clients can see or do homeservers filter them out? | 06:40:24 |
| uep | * | 06:40:28 |
| uep | In reply to @f0x:pixie.town
might also have to be enabled in labs/settings somewhere else, not entirely sure yeah that's what i can't find. | 06:40:52 |
| emily | /devtools itself has a switch | 06:41:08 |
| emily | I don't know where the tools show up in the UI if you toggle it on | 06:41:17 |
 f0x | In reply to @uep:matrix.org
well, not in the room that's been tombstoned, because there's no input box :facepal; oh right lol, then you'd need to send it directly through the API, I can help with that later | 06:41:21 |
| emily | oh, bottom-left cog | 06:41:22 |
| emily | so /devtools → switch it on → go to room → bottom-left cog | 06:41:30 |
| emily | so easy! | 06:41:41 |
| uep | yeah, looks like they moved the "developer mode" toggle into this panel | 06:42:15 |
| f0x | In reply to @emilazy:matrix.org
can you have secret conversations nobody using normal clients can see or do homeservers filter them out? yes, sending new/custom event types is an explicit goal for Matrix. Element can be configure to always show (unknown) events in the timeline stil though | 06:42:17 |
| emily | right. I think I used to have that turned on | 06:42:29 |
| emily | but it seems like an abuse vector. you can smuggle illegal content into rooms that the mods probably won't see? | 06:42:42 |
