[pkulak]

That’s Matrix. Matrix has spent too much time chasing Discord, with spaces, and group video chat, and email with federation. And too much time chasing Slack with threads. But everything you mentioned is core Matrix chat and works great on every client.

[fedpost]

Yeah, it's a frustrating situation because we have hundreds of people and the constant state-sync issues and assorted account problems are making it hard for non-technical people to participate.

[20k]

Matrix still doesn't have a client with built in push to talk as far as I'm aware. The relevant issue on the Element github has been sat there for 8 years now

It does not seem like a serious project, at least not one being developed by folks who have user experience in mind

[tim-projects]

I've never used matrix for more than 10 minutes, but I'd like to counter this with WhatsApp. WhatsApp has a swipe up to talk. This feature when used in a group effectively sends audio from you walking in your pocket to potentially thousands of people.

Internet groups are littered with complaints about this feature. But there is no way to turn it off and meta appears to not give a sh*t.

So, I'm not sure you can really argue that Matrix is not serious when that is the competition.

[solarkraft]

Same for multi-account support in Element Desktop. However: The new breed of clients (Element X) has this, along with many other improvements. This is probably what the happy user featured in the article was using. They recently (in the last few years) started to focus on UX, with what I would call some success.

[tcfhgj]

They had more important user experience things to work on than push to talk (no offense)

[panick21_]

I disagree. All these things are pretty needed. They had a lot of other projects ongoing that they spent time one, like full time developers for VR and a bunch of other things. But overall its just a tricky thing to run a project like this.