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I could count the number of good, modern, high featured XMPP and IRC clients on one hand. At least compared to their proprietary counterparts. Matrix has at lea
by zanny 8y ago
I could count the number of good, modern, high featured XMPP and IRC clients on one hand. At least compared to their proprietary counterparts. Matrix has at least as many either mature (Fractal, Riot) or up and coming clients as I'd consider usable with anything else, and it has bridges into all that legacy, something I have never seen IRC or XMPP manage well.
If you have legitimate grievances with the protocol and feel you can see flaws in it, make an issue on the tracker now while its still a 0.x release, doesn't have the broad adoption you describe, and while the team (knowingly) can make breaking changes simultaneously released to matrix.org and riot.im and cover 95% of the users still.
- pseudalopex 8y agoRiot is the only client Matrix.org calls stable.[1] I would not call the desktop version good. The only third-party clients that are close to complete are Nheko (which has been abandoned) and FluffyChat (which is for Ubuntu Touch).[2][3] There are no stable servers.[1] The reference server is being completely rewritten. Matrix bridges work about as well as XMPP bridges in my experience. [1] https://matrix.org/docs/projects/try-matrix-now https://matrix.org/docs/projects/try-matrix-now [2] https://matrix.org/docs/projects/clients-matrix https://matrix.org/docs/projects/clients-matrix [3] https://github.com/mujx/nheko https://github.com/mujx/nheko
- krageon 8y agoThe phone experience for riot is really, really bad (extremely high battery usage, even when the app is not in use. I'm aware of the technical reasoning behind it and I frankly don't care as a consumer). This was (and is) the one barrier stopping me from using it and converting my friends to matrix (they're not platform loyal at all).