[MBCook]

Can someone summarize the findings? I genuinely can’t read it well. The tables are too wide for the viewport. If I make the browser wider the page becomes two columns and the viewports are still too small to show the full table.

The sections of text also appear to be longer than the boxes they are in, causing scrolling inside which I only discovered after a few minutes and making it hard to read.

Honestly it’s quite frustrating. Which is too bad I really liked that this testing was done.

[ReactiveJelly]

Yeah this 2-column layout is super weird.

> Conversations (XMPP) seems best for battery life, traffic and RAM.

> Facebook Messenger and Element (Matrix) are the worst from the studied apps, draining up to 300x more power than Conversations when battery optimization is disabled. Keep battery optimization enabled for them, I guess. Need more data to see better.

> Element X (experimental Matrix app) is coming up with a more than 100x reduction in energy consumption (comparing to Element), drawing just 2x more power than Conversations.

[tentacleuno]

Not surprised they've found Element to be so inefficient. It used to drain a LOT of my battery, despite me never actually using it. I find myself disappointed with Element apps in general (it's why I use Nheko Reborn on desktop).

[tcfhgj]

I guess it's time to uninstall Element.

Have been running it alongside Element X so far, but the energy consumption does not justify the few additional features

[userbinator]

The tables are too wide for the viewport. If I make the browser wider the page becomes two columns and the viewports are still too small to show the full table.

The sections of text also appear to be longer than the boxes they are in, causing scrolling inside which I only discovered after a few minutes and making it hard to read.

I saw the domain, and was not surprised to see this comment here. Frankly, this is what a ton of "modern" software is like. Flashy, bloated, and overmarketed with buzzwords, but just barely accessible.

A plain HTML page with regular tables and images would be far superior.

[MBCook]

I haven’t seen a webpage that looks like this since the early 90s when people would use 12 frames to make their website “cool“ and “different“.

[izacus]

It's a bunch of numbers that don't even seem to be controlled for the amount of messages sent and received. Or usage time. Or run time.

It's... wierd.

[senectus1]

the conclusion isn't good enough?

Conclusions Conversations (XMPP) seems best for battery life, traffic and RAM.

Facebook Messenger and Element (Matrix) are the worst from the studied apps, draining up to 300x more power than Conversations when battery optimization is disabled. Keep battery optimization enabled for them, I guess. Need more data to see better.

Element X (experimental Matrix app) is coming up with a more than 100x reduction in energy consumption (comparing to Element), drawing just 2x more power than Conversations.

A few more proprietary messengers have been measured and they fall in between the space between the above mentioned extremes. Little can be said about them besides that most of them continuously draw substantial amount of power and bandwidth even when not interacted with.

[MBCook]

I got down to about the graphs before I gave up.

If there was a conclusion beyond that, I’m sorry but I missed it.

This site reminds me of the early 90s when people would make frame layouts with dozens of individual little tiny frames and put different content in every single one.

There’s a reason no one does that anymore.

[j16sdiz]

No surprise for Facebook Messenger. Facebook have a Messenger Lite app with exactly the same feature set ,for years. No idea why they still have the non-lite version as default.

[rpodraza]

they recently removed the lite version.