vitriolix, 8 months ago

@strypey @matrix I use the official Element app but am going to try Element X thanks to this thread

catsalad, 8 months ago

@strypey @matrix
🌸🏵️ FluffyChat :matrix: 🏵️🌸

element, 8 months ago

@strypey @matrix Element X :D https://element.io/blog/element-x-android-preview/

strypey, 8 months ago

@element
> Element X

Is there an F-Droid repo for this? I can't find it in the main repo.

@matrix

CleoMenezesJr, 8 months ago

@strypey @downey @matrix If you're looking for a rich feature client, maybe Element is the choice.
Fluffychat is really... fluffy client. I'm trying it now btw.
I'm looking forward to the Element X

strypey, 8 months ago

@CleoMenezesJr
> If you're looking for a rich feature client, maybe Element is the choice

Element is what I'm using. I keep hitting annoying bugs with it, thus the OP.

> I'm looking forward to the Element X

Only learned about that today. If they've been working on another refactor, that explains why the existing Element has felt like it's in maintenance mode for a while.

@downey @matrix

serebit, 8 months ago

@strypey @matrix I've had issues with every single one that I've tried. The most stable one has been Element X (Android) for me, but I've only been on it for a few days now.

icedquinn, 8 months ago

@strypey @matrix wrong question but the correct answer is Conversations

strypey, 8 months ago

@icedquinn
> wrong question but the correct answer is Conversations

Matrix or XMPP?

Fight!

strypey, 8 months ago

@icedquinn
I have 2 XMPP app on my Android, including Snikket, which is a soft fork of Conversations. I'm writing a series of blog posts for Snikket ATM.

XMPP has its uses, but I find matrix apps useful for a bunch of things that XMPP apps currently aren't (I specify apps, the protocol is capable of more than any current implementation). I must blog about this because it just keeps coming up.

icedquinn, 8 months ago

@strypey the lack of desktop programmers is truly a handicap on the world in many ways

strypey, 8 months ago

@icedquinn
> the lack of desktop programmers

You mean people keen to work on native desktop apps?

icedquinn, 8 months ago

@strypey we don't really have them anymore. we just have an absolute glut of webdevs.

strypey, 8 months ago

@icedquinn
> we don't really have them anymore. we just have an absolute glut of webdevs

That's become the case since pretty much every networked device came to have a web browser, making the web a design-once, deploy-everywhere way to do cross -platform apps. Once there were more people using mobile OS than desktop OS (it's now a huge majority), there was even less reason to go to the lengths required to develop and maintain native apps for desktop OS.