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I agree Matrix is promising and I use it on a regular basis, but I wish they made it easier for non-technical people to join and use. I haven't been very succe
by fauigerzigerk 5y ago
I agree Matrix is promising and I use it on a regular basis, but I wish they made it easier for non-technical people to join and use.
I haven't been very successful convincing people to join. Some tried but were immediately put off by the complicated UI. It takes too much explaining and hand holding.
Those constantly in-your-face "session verification" prompts are bewildering and useless. And then it's impossible to disable spell checking in the Element client.
I hope it continues to get better.
- tombert 5y agoGranted, this was about 1.5 years ago, so a lot has probably changed, but when a fellow engineer friend and I decided to switch to Matrix, we have a lot of trouble getting the end-to-end encryption working. It required a lot of finagling and sharing of keys and was pretty annoying. Being engineers, we did figure everything out, but I couldn't see any non-technical users going through the headache, particularly when Signal is just "install and you're done".
- fauigerzigerk 5y agoThat one appears to have been fixed. It's just a one-click thing now to enable E2EE.
- tombert 5y agooh? I'll have to check it out then. I would definitely prefer federated chat.
- kitkat_new 5y agoMatrix now and 1.5 years ago is day and night