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Let's not sugar coat Matrix. Joining from federated networks to some larger rooms takes hours or even days. Tried it a few months ago, was not impressed. I sp
by Jnr 5y ago
Let's not sugar coat Matrix.
Joining from federated networks to some larger rooms takes hours or even days.
Tried it a few months ago, was not impressed. I spent a couple days debugging it and asking for some support, but it turns out the official server software is by design incapable of joining large rooms instantly. It literally took 2 days for the room to appear in my chat client. And the message delivery was also delayed and far from instant.
To me personally IRC is way better than Matrix, when it comes to basic instant text messaging. For more advanced features I would rather use Discord, than spend days trying to get Matrix work.
- feanaro 5y agoHours and days?! I've certainly never seen that, that's a bug. The most problematic rooms (like Matrix HQ) took no more than 20 minutes for me, and that's only for the first join -- subsequent users get to join "for free". Performance is going to be a major focus in 2022, with [fast federation room joins](https://matrix.org/blog/2021/12/22/the-mega-matrix-holiday-special-2021#fast-joins-over-federation https://matrix.org/blog/2021/12/22/the-mega-matrix-holiday-s...) and a new version of [the sync part of protocol](https://matrix.org/blog/2021/12/22/the-mega-matrix-holiday-special-2021#sync-v3 https://matrix.org/blog/2021/12/22/the-mega-matrix-holiday-s...).