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by minitech 358 days ago
Matrix does have that problem. I’ve lost so much message history to key management bugs.
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This was pretty common until (I think) late last year, but GP was writing in present tense. The Matrix team have been fixing the various bugs responsible. I haven't seen an "unable to decrypt" error recently.

https://matrix.org/blog/2024/10/29/matrix-2.0-is-here/#4-inv...

Fwiw I still can read more than 5 years old messages in the new Element X app, which I recently installed.