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Unrelated. Tried Matrix for the first time a few days ago. Horrible experience (very slow). It's a shame it's borderline useless, because it brought back nostal

Unrelated. Tried Matrix for the first time a few days ago. Horrible experience (very slow). It's a shame it's borderline useless, because it brought back nostalgia from my IRC days.

dizhn 4y ago
Have you installed your own insurance? I have been using the matrix.org server along with a bunch of discord and irc bridges. The bridges do break and need attention from the room owners, which they sometimes do not get, but it is not horrible. I am using the element.io web interface. The gui clients I tried have not been better than the web interface.
- sdfhdhjdw3 4y ago
  No, I haven't installed my own instance. If that's a prerequisite to having a good experience, I don't want it. I value a federated open standard, but I'm not gonna be the one running it... The android Element client has been sluggish too, but I believe most of the lagginess comes from the matrix.org instance. Matrix supporters seem to brush this off as "oh well, that's just the matrix.org server that's laggy, it's not a problem intrinsic to the protocol." It's the most important server that's borderline unusable!
  - telmich 4y ago
    To be fair, it really isn't designed to rely on one server. And if you don't want to run your own, you can always have someone host the server for you.
  - dizhn 4y ago
    No I thought running your own might offer a worse experience. That's why I asked. I didn't try it myself. Honestly I didn't find matrix to be much worse than Discord. I don't know what people are looking for in these kinds of apps but Discord might be the worst (maybe weirdest?) application I used willingly. Matrix irc bridges are good as an irc bouncer I don't need to run myself and there are a few open source communities that chose matrix as their base. For what I use it for they are fine. My personel favorite in this space is Zulip.

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Unrelated. Tried Matrix for the first time a few days ago. Horrible experience (very slow). It's a shame it's borderline useless, because it brought back nostal

by sdfhdhjdw3 4y ago

Unrelated. Tried Matrix for the first time a few days ago. Horrible experience (very slow). It's a shame it's borderline useless, because it brought back nostalgia from my IRC days.

dizhn 4y ago
Have you installed your own insurance? I have been using the matrix.org server along with a bunch of discord and irc bridges. The bridges do break and need attention from the room owners, which they sometimes do not get, but it is not horrible. I am using the element.io web interface. The gui clients I tried have not been better than the web interface.
- sdfhdhjdw3 4y ago
  No, I haven't installed my own instance. If that's a prerequisite to having a good experience, I don't want it. I value a federated open standard, but I'm not gonna be the one running it... The android Element client has been sluggish too, but I believe most of the lagginess comes from the matrix.org instance. Matrix supporters seem to brush this off as "oh well, that's just the matrix.org server that's laggy, it's not a problem intrinsic to the protocol." It's the most important server that's borderline unusable!
  - telmich 4y ago
    To be fair, it really isn't designed to rely on one server. And if you don't want to run your own, you can always have someone host the server for you.
  - dizhn 4y ago
    No I thought running your own might offer a worse experience. That's why I asked. I didn't try it myself. Honestly I didn't find matrix to be much worse than Discord. I don't know what people are looking for in these kinds of apps but Discord might be the worst (maybe weirdest?) application I used willingly. Matrix irc bridges are good as an irc bouncer I don't need to run myself and there are a few open source communities that chose matrix as their base. For what I use it for they are fine. My personel favorite in this space is Zulip.