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Slightly off topic: I really like the idea of Matrix/Element, but I’ve found I can’t rely on it. In three instances, I’ve had a long-running chats stop working
by desertraven 5y ago
Slightly off topic: I really like the idea of Matrix/Element, but I’ve found I can’t rely on it.
In three instances, I’ve had a long-running chats stop working completely and simply not load. All history/media inaccessible. Just a loading spinner. This is Element on iOS.
I wish it were more dependable, because things like this would excite me much more.
- Arathorn 5y agoWe have had some fairly nightmarish bugs on iOS thanks to how iOS changed push notifications a while back, meaning that you end up with a tiny client in the push extension trying to independently sync and decrypt e2ee traffic which was at risk of clashing with the main app and causing problems. I think I know the bug you are describing, and it was fixed several months ago - as of the current build the spinner should only show for less than a second and never get stuck on. Sorry that you got bitten by this; I’m also an iOS poweruser and the fallout from the push changes was painful. Seperately, we wre also experimenting with a full rewrite of the iOS app on top of matrix-rust-sdk called Element X, which whould provide a much better and faster codebase to try to avoid this sort of thing in future.
- desertraven 5y agoWow! Seems it was user error, since I just updated it and it’s fixed. Thanks so much. I wish I could update my parent comment. Although this interaction speaks for itself I think. Thanks for a great product!