The âexperimentalâ voice rooms are total trash, settings are not working (e.g. auto-gain canât 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 âCanât decrypt messageâ 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 âwait many many minutesâ slow.
The whole Spaces-with-detached-rooms concept is a mess
Thereâre no proper moderation tools
There isnât 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 donât have all options exposed
Encryption is nice, but Matrix leaking tons of metadata isnât.
They effectively stopped developing the Element client in favour of Element X, which isnât available in desktop. And also loves to break during verification.
Third-party clients sometimes work better, but certainly donât 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. Itâs a steaming mess for years now with no end in sight, and literally everyone who tried it eventually left disenchanted. Donât even bother trying it.
This was my experience. Every time people suggest it as a Discord alternative Iâm like, have you actually tried it? I hate Discord as much as the next guy but Matrix doesnât get anywhere closer.
They mock people for not self-hosting, calling it a âskill issue.â I mean, not everyone has the time and energy to deal with that level of friction.
Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de â¨23⊠â¨hours⊠ago
Where do I even startâŚ
I really tried to like it, I even attempted to move a community over, attempted to self-host, all the jazz. Itâs a steaming mess for years now with no end in sight, and literally everyone who tried it eventually left disenchanted. Donât even bother trying it.
dev_null@lemmy.ml â¨23⊠â¨hours⊠ago
This was my experience. Every time people suggest it as a Discord alternative Iâm like, have you actually tried it? I hate Discord as much as the next guy but Matrix doesnât get anywhere closer.
fastfomo7@lemmy.dbzer0.com â¨20⊠â¨hours⊠ago
They mock people for not self-hosting, calling it a âskill issue.â I mean, not everyone has the time and energy to deal with that level of friction.