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I use Discord for public communications and I don't mind plaintext storage at all - on the contrary, on public chats, I personally value public history. The la

I use Discord for public communications and I don't mind plaintext storage at all - on the contrary, on public chats, I personally value public history. The last time I've used Matrix actually, usability was a disaster; took me a while to figure out even just how to login, and that wasn't the only problem.

fartcannon 4y ago
The login screen was too complicated for you, eh?
- pizza234 4y ago
  I was asked to login concurrently from two different browsers, every time I wanted to login. It was a very puzzling experience, and took me a while to figure it out, because it was something I've never experienced before in chat systems, and it wasn't spelled clearly, like "you must login from two browsers", in order to compensate for the unusualness. The UX of communicating with other users was problematic as well. I've tried to establish communications with a certain user, and I have no idea if I succeeded or not (likely not); two separate communications "channels" (I don't know the terminology) were opened with the same user, which is perplexing, since again, this is something I've never experienced before. I think those two weren't even the only problems I've had.
  - fartcannon 4y ago
    Did you file a bug? That doesn't happen. Normally you log in. And that's it. On a new device, you can (optionally) verify your account to see previous encrypted comversations. But you don't have to do that. As for the chat rooms, they work exactly like Discord, which is exactly like every chat client with chat rooms has since the dawn of IRC. You can send a message to one person, or you can join a room and message everyone at the same time. Easy peasy!
- seizethegdgap 4y ago
  Do you remember using Riot pre-cross signing? If you don't, then you have no idea how bad it used to be.
  - fartcannon 4y ago
    I do and it wasn't bad. And for literally years now its been great.

fartcannon 4y ago

The login screen was too complicated for you, eh?

pizza234 4y ago
I was asked to login concurrently from two different browsers, every time I wanted to login. It was a very puzzling experience, and took me a while to figure it out, because it was something I've never experienced before in chat systems, and it wasn't spelled clearly, like "you must login from two browsers", in order to compensate for the unusualness. The UX of communicating with other users was problematic as well. I've tried to establish communications with a certain user, and I have no idea if I succeeded or not (likely not); two separate communications "channels" (I don't know the terminology) were opened with the same user, which is perplexing, since again, this is something I've never experienced before. I think those two weren't even the only problems I've had.
- fartcannon 4y ago
  Did you file a bug? That doesn't happen. Normally you log in. And that's it. On a new device, you can (optionally) verify your account to see previous encrypted comversations. But you don't have to do that. As for the chat rooms, they work exactly like Discord, which is exactly like every chat client with chat rooms has since the dawn of IRC. You can send a message to one person, or you can join a room and message everyone at the same time. Easy peasy!
seizethegdgap 4y ago
Do you remember using Riot pre-cross signing? If you don't, then you have no idea how bad it used to be.
- fartcannon 4y ago
  I do and it wasn't bad. And for literally years now its been great.