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by tredre3 489 days ago
> Can you expand on your doubts for the ability to execute?

I have faith that the foundation manages its finance properly. I believe the Matrix protocol (and ecosystem) is full of good, needed, ideas.

But the software produced by the foundation is simply bad. From the clients to the servers. In every single matrix threads, complaints about the UX or performance abound. Usually followed by people from the foundation saying it's fixed in X or 2.0. Or by fanboys saying it's not a real problem and wasting resources on UX is dumb.

That's been going on for almost a decade now. That's a clear demonstration of a lack of ability to execute on a good idea.

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> But the software produced by the foundation is simply bad.

The foundation produces things like the spec and the e2ee libs. The last time the foundation produced a client was in 2015, and servers in 2023 - in both instances the wider community builds the implementations, just as W3C doesn’t make web browsers any more.

> Usually followed by people from the foundation saying it's fixed in X or 2.0.

Could this be because… it’s fixed in Element X or Matrix 2.0, perhaps?