| - The native clients for Matrix suck. Even the mobile clients for Matrix are full of bugs. - No custom emojis; every chat application known to man has regular emojis supported in UTF-8, so the author must be talking about custom ones. Which Matrix still does not have: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/1951 - I don't think doing what PGP does is really impressive, but okay, fine, one point. - Matrix group chats are broken and this is why Synapse eats resources like a bear. - No searchable history on all but one Electron client on one platform when using E2E is terrible, and further supports the argument that all clients suck. - Point; this is pretty convenient. - XMPP sucks. Matrix is modern XMPP. People don't like getting confused with servers and similar nonsense, and when your homeserver goes down, you're out of luck. Federation sucks. The question wasn't made to exclude Matrix, it was made to point out that federation sucks. Matrix didn't invent federation; it chose it long after it failed. - E2E degrades experience greatly. To list my two biggest complaints: It ruins search for all but one client, and the UX around keys is terrible. I frequently have conversations with incredibly technical people and they'll still get absolutely stumped by the UX around keys, because it's awful. Two out of eight isn't bad. I use Matrix every day. I have for years; long before the recent rebrand, and multiple presidents have vacated office since I started using Matrix. I love Matrix. But there's no reason to act like it's some golden goose when there are problems from 2015 that are no closer to being fixed than they were at the time. It's a comfortable protocol for usage by people who have powerful computers. For everyone else, it still isn't great. |
it's more than PGP, it includes variable PFS, automatic key exchanges
> - Matrix group chats are broken and this is why Synapse eats resources like a bear.
I have heard it's because Synapse is a proof of concept that went into production
> Federation sucks. The question wasn't made to exclude Matrix, it was made to point out that federation sucks. Matrix didn't invent federation; it chose it long after it failed.
I disagree. Federation is a burden, but it enables interoperability between independent parties.
> But there's no reason to act like it's some golden goose when there are problems from 2015 that are no closer to being fixed than they were at the time.
There's also no reason to do the same thing into the other direction.