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Let's not lie to ourselves about it : Matrix is slow.

But, that's fine ! All we need is a client that adapts to it.

For example : when trying to join a room. All clients, Element and otherwise, display a modal. If it takes forever, then you can't do anything in the meantime.

Instead, a slow-friendly app would : add the channel to the channel list, saying ⟳ Joining... | You'll receive a notification once having successfully joined this room.

There, non-blocking.

Same for :

  • changing notification preferences ;
  • accepting/declining chat requests ;

Etc.

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[–] turdas@suppo.fi 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Matrix.org is really slow, but I'm on a smaller home server and things are generally fast enough. While it doesn't make your point any less true (there are still times things are far too slow), you might want to try finding a smaller home server if you currently use matrix.org.

[–] KaKi87@jlai.lu 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm on converser.eu, what makes it slow is Synapse.