I was hoping my #Matrix experience would be better after setting up my own #Synapse and #Element servers, but I think it's worse. It takes 10-15+ minutes to join a room that's on another server.
I really want Matrix to be the federated chat platform that #OpenSource communities (and others) can move to, but we need to somehow solve these latency problems.
@sb How can you tell if your home server supports Sliding Sync?
It occurred to me while reading this post that I should probably just shutdown my Element server and use an existing Element client. That would free up some resources, for sure.
Nachdem ich sicherheitshalber in Signal die URL-Vorschau abgeschaltet hatte, wollte ich vorsichtshalber dasselbe in #Element tun. Dabei habe ich mir einen Wolf gesucht und musste eine Weile im Internet recherchieren, weil ich diese Einstellung nicht unter „Mediendateien“ erwartet hätte.
@locness3 Your mileage may vary, but we (several people on the Thunderbird team) have seem issues like images not loading, uploads failing, messages not sending, rooms constantly displaying "Unread" status, etc.
@gregorni@FineFindus If you are on Android, then consider using SchildiChat (which is an Element fork), whose splash screen under dark mode is its logo on a black background.
Hey @element devs, getting #notifications for emoji reactions is very annoying. Especially when there's no way to click on a particular notification and get taken to the message or reaction it's related to.
PLEASE TELL YOUR FRIENDS. I am looking for a React-capable, full-stack developer who would like to lead a new fork of #Element.io. The existing forks are simply not very aggressive, and there is a massive void for a project that is. I am confident that a few new features and some better documentation will make it very popular, very fast. #developers#FOSS#matrix
Finally, documentation aimed at people, not just engineers.
I’m sure I’ve left out a lot, but you caught me unprepared :)
Don’t get me wrong. I’m a big fan of Element. I just feel all messengers are underutilized because they are optimized by engineers with a very narrow use-case perspective. Element is probably the best matrix solution we have. I just want to make it the best messenger and chat tool we have. 4/4
Practically all of these will make it on to the #CommuneApp roadmap at some point. We basically take the approach that our client experience isn’t competitive until it’s as user-friendly as Discord; that’s where the bar is set.
As such we have one key departure from Element in that with Commune encryption is opt-in rather than required from the start.
It’s also web-public (like a forum) by default to enable lurking, aka ‘anonymous vibe checks’.
Nå er element x ute av beta!!! Dette er vist starten på det som skal bli MATRIX 2.0, og jeg er spent. For om element x er representabelt for hva som kommer, så er jeg med! 🤯
For å forklare! Element x appen løser mange av problemene den originale appen er kjent for å ha. Den har nå super rask synkronisering og super responsiv app.
Virker som det eksisterer et stort marked som ikke er tilfredsstilt innen sikker kommunikasjon tilhørende organisasjoner, bedrifter og offentligheten, i følge @element sin undersøkelse. 😯
To be honest: Even after the response, the original article – and my own experience with Matrix & Element – leaves me wondering whether Matrix is really the way to go, and whether these issues can ever be solved.
@scy@matthew I'm missing sources in that document. I don't expect the author to be lying, but it's just claims by an anonymous person that I can't verify and looking at the answer of the CEO it seems that a lot of it are outdated or at least partly wrong.
@leoniensieger Valid point. I've also noticed how the response doesn't address all of the problems though.
It seems to me like the truth is probably somewhere in the middle. I don't know enough about the inner workings of Matrix to comment on the technical details or provide sources or citations. But maybe someone else does, and this post of mine motivates them to do so.
My intention is not to say "look, Matrix is obviously bad", but rather "maybe it's going in the wrong direction".