it's getting better all the time IMHO. The problem is that the reference back-end is in Python which isn't scaling well enough for the matrix.org instance / its

it's getting better all the time IMHO. The problem is that the reference back-end is in Python which isn't scaling well enough for the matrix.org instance / its rooms-- which is the only instance many people try. There's a project to implement that back-end in Golang which I expect to be a real turning point if it can get off the ground.