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> - use your preferred client to connect to your preferred server. I want to like Matrix, but this is currently the most painful point, for me. There are very
by progval 5y ago
> - use your preferred client to connect to your preferred server.
I want to like Matrix, but this is currently the most painful point, for me. There are very few mature clients, so they don't serve as many niches or specific tastes as IRC clients.
> I can't see how IRCv3, if it ever lands, can compete with this. It's years (decades?) behind at this point.
Not sure what you mean by "landing". Many specs are already implemented, deployed, and used in the wild.
> And if it lands a spec which is equally capable as Matrix, how can it ever be compatible with "the old IRC"?
Every IRCv3 spec is designed with backward compatibility in mind, so old clients are not left behind, they just don't benefit from the new features. The main mechanism for this is a capability negotiation when clients connect.
- hyperstar 5y agoI tried Matrix a few months ago, but the clients were pretty horrible compared to irssi. The only functional one was the ugly GUI one with emojis and all that.
- coldpie 5y agoWeechat-matrix-rs[1] is the fix for that, but it's not currently usable (I tried it yesterday, hard crashes trying to log in to a local homeserver). Maybe in a few more years......... [1] https://github.com/poljar/weechat-matrix-rs https://github.com/poljar/weechat-matrix-rs
- NoGravitas 5y ago'gomuks' is a pretty capable TUI client for Matrix.
- MayeulC 5y agoI've tried a lot of very functional clients. I suppose you think of Element? There's also Cinny, Hydrogen (both web), Fluffychat, Nheko, gomuks. Maybe quaternion is more to your taste? Not sure if it supports E2EE.