| Here's some of my pet-peeves and experiences from the webapp, the webapp wrapping desktop app, and the iPhone app. Maybe they'll qualify for awful usability, maybe they won't. There's been an issue open for Push-to-talk in element for 6 years. Insane. The voice and video calls/conferences aren't very good interface-wise. You could defer to this Jitsi being bad though. Screen-sharing is just broken so your alternative is to use OBS and its Virtual Camera, which means audio-sharing doesn't work. You won't actually see the video until you find the quality option somewhere to slide it all the way up. The whole screen-sharing or conference thing remaining visible, after everyone has disconnected, until the "starter" closes it? I'm not sure. Element X is mobile only (correct me if I'm wrong) so it's irrelevant to many users. You can't reorder your "favourites", only sort by Activity or A-Z (and showing recent first). "Favourites" being non-American English was something I noticed right now which doesn't matter but is worth noting for i18n. The lines after a `>quote` also get swallowed up into a quote block which I'm not a fan of and requires you to have an empty line after. Github does something similar afair. The inexplicable Unable to decrypt messages that happen sometimes. Can likely be deferred as user-error. Trying to sync or transfer keys across devices and not knowing if it worked so you just sit there and wait to see if the Unable to decrypt messages resolve. >"Use the Desktop app to search encrypted messages" (from the webapp) And finally, one of the most annoying things: shit scrollback for messages. It loves to jump to the very bottom/latest messages. >folks who refuse to use a system which doesn’t have total parity with every feature Discord has”, or who are annoyed at having to run more than one chat app; Discord is where my friends are. Well, they are on Discord. And Discord has PTT(LOL!!!) and working screen-sharing (very important!). And Element has a bunch of these random things that make it annoying to use in comparison that makes everyone call it shit and then only use it for text chat and maybe Mumble for voice, when not using Discord of course. One more bug: some combination of right-clicking on the Element tray icon causes it to be covered by Windows' task-bar right-click menu. |