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

• 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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      • fastfomo7@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        They mock people for not self-hosting, calling it a ‘skill issue.’ I mean, not everyone has the time and energy to deal with that level of friction.

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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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