Where do I even startâŚ
- The verification process constantly breaks
- Sessions get randomly unverified
- Pictures arenât being send occasionally
- Their client is a UI/UX catastrophe
- Room Events are incompatible (esp. w/ Element X)
- 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.
dev_null@lemmy.ml â¨1⊠â¨day⊠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¨1⊠â¨day⊠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.