Comment on GitHub - spacebarchat/spacebarchat: 📬 Spacebar is a free open source selfhostable discord compatible communication platform

savvywolf@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Because Stoat is also riddled with problems and Matrix is a dysfunctional hot mess.

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  • traxex@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    How is Matrix dysfunctional?

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    • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Where do I even start…

      • The verification process constantly breaks
      • Sessions get randomly unverified
      • Pictures aren’t being send occasionally
      • Their client is a UI/UX catastrophe
      • Room Events are incompatible (esp. w/ Element X)
      • The “experimental” voice rooms are total trash, settings are not working (e.g. auto-gain can’t be disabled)
      • The Calls via Jitsi somehow have a worse UX than Skype had in its worst days
      • The verification via emojis uses different emoji styles, missing the point completely
      • Due to the session mess “Can’t decrypt message” will be your best friend
      • Even if you got a verified session it sometimes fails to decrypt a message
      • The federation is SLOW. As in “wait many many minutes” slow.
      • The whole Spaces-with-detached-rooms concept is a mess
      • There’re no proper moderation tools
      • There isn’t even a god damn admin panel! For the longest time you had to MANUALLY CURL THE API. Even today you have to mess with third-party admin panels that usually don’t have all options exposed
      • Encryption is nice, but Matrix leaking tons of metadata isn’t.
      • They effectively stopped developing the Element client in favour of Element X, which isn’t available in desktop. And also loves to break during verification.
      • Third-party clients sometimes work better, but certainly don’t expect anything but text chats with pictures there.

      I really tried to like it, I even attempted to move a community over, attempted to self-host, all the jazz. It’s a steaming mess for years now with no end in sight, and literally everyone who tried it eventually left disenchanted. Don’t even bother trying it.

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      • dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        This was my experience. Every time people suggest it as a Discord alternative I’m like, have you actually tried it? I hate Discord as much as the next guy but Matrix doesn’t get anywhere closer.

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  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    In the proper timeline the superior proprietary platform Axon beat out Discord.

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    • Willdrick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The cumulative hours we’ve lost screwing around with the manual placement spacial audio on Axon… When it went tits up we switched to Mumble tho

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• Telodzrum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Well, Stoat sucks and has no vision or history of reasonably paced development. So, it’s more of a vaporware wish then actual software.

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