Matrix v1.15

There’s a surprising amount of negativity in here. Matrix is great for me. I’m happy to see the improvements. I’m also happy to hear the team is approaching sustainability. Matrix isn’t perfect but it has only improved in the 5 years I’ve been using it. I’m looking forward to what they can do in another 5 years.

Every new release or "This week in Matrix" post I check to see if Discord style detailed permissions and voice channels get added and every time I get disappointed. I fear it'll never be added at this point due to the funding issues. I hyped it up to all of my friends who stick to Discord that "One day" it'll compete with Discord and we, and millions of others can all finally be happy. I hope that day will come, but my hope is fading.

It baffles me that when you install the Element App (which uses matrix.org by default), you can not easily find any of your friends, because you cant “connect” your phone number…

This makes the App a no-go for everyone and their grandmother. The registration and setup process was so cumbersome, even people with some tech knowledge in my friend circle had trouble getting it to work.

Anyway, it seems so user hostile, why not just make connecting a phone number optional? That would attract many more people?

Super happy to see matrix chug along. I’ve been self hosting dendrite home server for a long time but it doesn’t have sliding sync support, so can’t use the new modernized client. Anyone using conduit for self hosting and do you know if it works with the new client?

Does anyone know if homeservers still control room membership + user key lists or if it's somehow properly signed now?

I couldn't find anything on https://matrix.org/blog/2022/09/28/upgrade-now-to-address-en...

Can't wait until MAS is just part of synapse/dendrite, will be a lot easier to install and maintain than the extra moving parts.

I'm happy Matrix exists and I've been a user in deployments at more than one university (where - fortunately - Teams, Slack and all the other externally hosted stuff isn't even an option).

None of these things are why I and everyone I know doesn’t use Matrix.

I like the idea of matrix and element, but the execution is just so lackluster. Even Signal added a lot of quality of life improvements, and WhatsApp is consistently getting better. I don't like the idea of using a messenger owned by Meta, but honestly, messengers absolutely need an excellent UX and UI, QOL features, etc. and Element is just far behind in this regard.

I use beeper to connect with WhatsApp. Saves me from 4 device WhatsApp web limit that is imposed.

That said, I am personally not so keen on using matrix. Remember India government banned matrix and other apps for "facilitating terrorist communications".

Ah... the joys of democracy.

custom emojis still didn't make the cut?