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As an early adopter and daily user of Element on multiple platforms, I want to take this opportunity to tell you personally the biggest UX problems I face (and
by jimmygrapes 4y ago
As an early adopter and daily user of Element on multiple platforms, I want to take this opportunity to tell you personally the biggest UX problems I face (and which are unanimously agreed upon by my server's users):
1. The Markdown display processor simply doesn't mesh with expectations for chat UX. I know there's FOSS considerations, but the end result is that someone expecting it to work like Discord/Slack/Teams sees the chaotic results and says "fuck this amateur nerd shit"
2. To this day, new users are horribly confused about how to join an encrypted room, even when their hand is held through the entire verification process (via Discord)
3. "Cinny is so nice, why isn't that the official one?"
- dpatterbee 4y agoIf you scroll down to near the bottom of the post linked by Arathorn you can read what they are currently doing about the rich text input box in element.
- Arathorn 4y ago1. We are about to replace the composer in Element with a sparkly new (optional) wysiwyg editor in the coming weeks: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-wysiwyg https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-wysiwyg 2. totally agreed. we are completely reworking the crypto UX; there’s already https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk/pull/8228 https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk/pull/8228 asa proof of concept of what’s to come. 3. glad you like Cinny - it’s written by ajbura, whose dayjob is at Element and built the UI for Third Room. Element is not “the official app” - it’s just the one that happens to be written by folks from the Matrix core team. If you prefer Cinny, knock yourself out. Meanwhile we’re frantically improving Element too.
- twicetwice 4y agoThat's great to hear! Thanks for all your work on Matrix/Element.
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