Comment by suprememoocow

We update on a batch[1] fairly infrequently (daily iirc). We don't need exact room membership since the results are aggregated.

> If the application crashes everyone would be kicked out of the channels anyway no

No, Gitter's room membership is persistent (between restarts, crashes and sessions)

1: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/webapp/blob/master/scri...