anyone here using or has recently used #matrix ?
I'm trying to see what the current state of the whole thing is (both the protocol and element) because my last experience with matrix is back when element was still called riot and I had several things that brushed me off hard from usability and UI.
For short: I'm looking to migrate a small community (~30 people) centered around a minecraft server I host off of discord and have it as one of my options (the others are XMPP, and a self-hosted mumble server), most of the people on it aren't incredibly technical so I would like things to be simple (when I last used matrix it was nowhere near that close) have things improved at all or is it still a broken IRC alternative that delivers messages some of the time?
the matrix server zould only really serve 2 main purposes:
- be a way for people to request whitelist access.
- allow for offline communication.strictly speaking voice chat is not needed, people run a mod for in-game voice chat; but it would be a nice bonus given some people do play on bedrock.
@matrix
I tried using matrix yesterday. I really hate to bash open-source decentralized software but.. fucking hell, was it annoying. I tried 1 server/instance (nope.chat) that just wouldn't work. I created my account on the desktop, logged in. But then, when I tried to log in on my android, it woudln't work. I logged out, tried to log in on the desktop again and it wouldn't work. Password/Username incorrect. I use a password manager, so I am sure I was typing things correctly. That pissed me off right from the get go. It was linking me to some other website, and not nope.chat, which is a bit annoying and weird, for the average user, but whatever. I just gave up on that server.
Then, I created an account in another instance/server. Cool, logged in. Worked on desktop, though I had to manually change the server in the element/browser-UI, even when I got linked there from the instance's page. Whatever. I logged in on Android as well, but immediately got a bunch of errors, asking me to reset my account. (?????). Whatever, I reset it and it worked fine.
So now I do have a working account on matrix, but it is so fucking slow and clunky. Fucking hell. I hate this.
On the other hand, I created, around the same time, an XMPP account. SO EASY. SO PERFORMANT. SO FAST. Night and day difference.