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by nickexyz 1347 days ago
We used RocketChat for a few years, but switched to Matrix/Dendrite/Element a couple of weeks ago since no one was really happy with RC.

Had a few weird bugs with Matrix (Probably Dendrite's fault) but so far everyone seems happy.

Element has become surprisingly snappy the last few years.
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Arathorn 1346 days ago
very cool to hear of Dendrite being used in the wild like this; it's still beta so we definitely don't make guarantees about it being bug-free yet. that said, would be interested to hear what weird bugs you hit (in #dendrite:matrix.org perhaps) so we can get more real-life datapoints on how it's behaving. Also, very glad to hear that Element is feeling snappy.
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nickexyz 1346 days ago
Yeah, we were aware that it is beta (I host a private server as well.), but decided that Dendrite probably is the best way to future-proof the solution. Most of the quirks I have seen seems to be with federation, but since we don't federate the company server, that is not an issue.

There have been some avatars missing in the contact list, notification indicator when there aren't any new notifications and other small stuff. Nothing major really, works great! Especially since you have weekly releases with plenty of fixes. I'll keep an eye open for bugs and drop by #dendrite!

Awesome job with the software, looking forward to the coming releases!

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