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It depends on your client as matrix.org is a open protocol. Anyone could implement the features you long for, that's the beauty.

The following are for Riot Desktop:

* Drag-and-drop file uploads.

Sure.

* Paste images from clipboard.

Did not work for me but it has been written and will work soon, if it does not already: https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/1297

* Search previous file uploads.

Dunno, there is a list of a room's files but I don't see a search option. Should be a trivial addition, maybe make a feature request? :)

* Video uploads with inline preview.

Sure, they are rendered in the message window.



Pasting imaging from clipboard is released, but is only implemented on the new (experimental) RTE editor, which has to be optionally enabled in Settings.

https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/1855 is the issue tracking indexing file uploads. Patches welcome if anyone wants to add this into synapse; it'd be pretty easy and fun (although obviously wouldn't work with encrypted rooms). https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/synapse/re... would be the place to index the file and chuck its contents into the existing full text search tables via something like https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/synapse/st....

My point is that Riot is FOSS, and if folks feel features are missing, please help us implement them O:-)




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