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by drcongo 131 days ago
I'm intrigued as to why both these, and the Suite Numerique have chose Element / Matrix as the chat component. Every time I've tried to use Element / Matrix it has failed dismally for me and everyone else in whatever community is trialling it. Element itself was so buggy as to be unusable.
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codethief 131 days ago
I don't use Element myself but there was a recent HN discussion where people said it had improved significantly in last year or two.
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lucb1e 131 days ago
After having the same experience negative some time before Covid, I was kindly invited late last year to a homeserver of a local hackerspace and I gave it another try.

I cannot send messages to people on another homeserver (such as the obscure matrix.org one) whereas other people can, as well as some other issues which I forgot by now. Not at all usable. It was a short-lived stint and I didn't even try to enable encryption this time :(

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drcongo 130 days ago
This sounds very much along the lines of issues I had with it. It's been a while so I can't remember the exact details, but I do remember it being impossible to open a thread without the app just locking up and crashing, so people would ask important questions in a thread and nobody was ever able to reply or even read the question.
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Arathorn 131 days ago
this sounds like something super weird about the setup - it really should just work. what client and server was it?
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lucb1e 131 days ago
Element web and mobile have the same issue; server I'm not sure, where can I see this? I would assume the default/reference implementation but I don't know

Groups work btw, it's just private chats that cannot be initiated from either side (I have like five pending 'rooms' or something now), so it's not that one server banned the other. I just took it for typical matrix experience

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Arathorn 130 days ago
it sounds like the hackspace server has been banned from inviting due to spam or something. can you share the name of the server so we can check? or mail abuse@matrix.org with the details.
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lucb1e 129 days ago
It's not my server and not actually that much involved in the space, I'm not sure if I'm supposed to email you guys about their system, but I'll mention this in the group chat. Thank you!
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ptman 131 days ago
It both still has problems and has been improving for all of its existence. It's been working for my usecases for years
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