Here, I am going to complain about my problems in Matrix :) I’m liking its vision and features and I want to use it but I’ve got lots of problems while using it. Is it just me or general thing? I’ve tried Element, Element X, Fluffy Chat and Cinny so far.

My problems are;

  • I got message notification but it did not showed on chat page with Element. I had to use another client.
  • I couldn’t accept private chat invite from someone in Element X, I’ve used Cinny to accept it.
  • Couldn’t use group tag? (like #group@server) someone send me to join to that chat group in Element, Element X and Fluffy Chat. Cinny worked tho.
  • I was not able to verify Cinny session with other devices. It stuck in loading screen.
  • Some messages says “waiting for this message” in Element (and X) but I can see them in Fluffy.
  • Message threads are only working with Element. It doesn’t works on Fluffy and Element X. Didn’t tried Cinny.
  • I can’t browse older messages in chat groups. It just stays in loading.

Probably there are other problems too that I don’t remember. Why are these apps (or Matrix) this broken? Or am I doing something wrong? 😑

  • shaked_coffee
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    10 months ago

    I kinda agree with the statement that the Matrix “ecosystem” is unstable, but I’ve been looking at it for some time now (It’s more than a year that I’m periodically giving it a try, but without having asked my friends or family to move yet) and what I’ve seen is some slow solid progress. So I’ll probably keep watching (and contribute if possible) its growth until there will be at least a desktop and a mobile client that works flawlessly out of the box, and then proceed to annoying any person with why they should move to Matrix (_)

    Some non-requested personal opinions about the clients I tried:

    • I think that the desktop/web version of Element is kinda stable, but the android and iOS versions are a big no to me (with this I mean they are not ready to be recommended to non tech-savy people imho).
    • Element X as many others said it’s still in beta, but I see huge potential on it. And I’d say that as soon as they manage to implement onboarding (like registering through the app) and proper “message replies” and threads it could be already pretty stable and usable from everyone.
    • Fluffy Chat last time I tried was reeeally unstable, but it’s been a while and maybe there were good progresses there as well (it must be kept in mind that it’s volunteers-driven and not backed by a company as Element is)
    • Cinny and Fragment seems very interesting too, but haven’t found the time to try them out properly yet.