These two things just aren’t directly comparable. You need an application to use Matrix, and there are only a handful that support all the features and of them, only a couple are stable and of those, none of them have a good (or any) UX for onboarding or administration or for channels with a large membership.
Element is the poster app for Matrix, but its clearly made by and for the people who design the protocol. Why do channels get an unread indicator when someone changes their name? Why must I see every time a user joins or leaves a room with no setting to turn it off for large rooms? Why can’t I turn off unread indicators for a room I really don’t care about constantly staying up to date on? How does the app even allow people to sign in without verifying their device cryptographically, so the app can announce to everyone else that they are an incomplete user? I can go on and on. I’m really liking Sable so far as an alternative, but it is constantly breaking and still suffers from some of the same issues as they’re just bound to the protocol.
I use these apps, I like them, but if they’re better than Discord to you then I’m happy, but you’re an edge case.
Sorry, you didn’t deserve this rant. Please forgive me. I hope fluxer (and matrix of course) does well and I am interested in how polyproto ends up working for it.
These two things just aren’t directly comparable. You need an application to use Matrix, and there are only a handful that support all the features and of them, only a couple are stable and of those, none of them have a good (or any) UX for onboarding or administration or for channels with a large membership.
Element is the poster app for Matrix, but its clearly made by and for the people who design the protocol. Why do channels get an unread indicator when someone changes their name? Why must I see every time a user joins or leaves a room with no setting to turn it off for large rooms? Why can’t I turn off unread indicators for a room I really don’t care about constantly staying up to date on? How does the app even allow people to sign in without verifying their device cryptographically, so the app can announce to everyone else that they are an incomplete user? I can go on and on. I’m really liking Sable so far as an alternative, but it is constantly breaking and still suffers from some of the same issues as they’re just bound to the protocol.
I use these apps, I like them, but if they’re better than Discord to you then I’m happy, but you’re an edge case.
Sorry, you didn’t deserve this rant. Please forgive me. I hope fluxer (and matrix of course) does well and I am interested in how polyproto ends up working for it.