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I gotta say, he nails it. I so wanted to love Matrix. I tried it for a year and it just had too many sharp edges.
by ThePowerOfFuet 3y ago
I gotta say, he nails it.
I so wanted to love Matrix. I tried it for a year and it just had too many sharp edges.
- theshrike79 3y agoI was on IRC when ircII and BitchX were common clients along with huge scripts on both for "irc wars" and shit. I can deal with jank. But the Matrix UI/UX still grates me on how bad it is. Just stop pretending, copy what Discord does and be done with it.
- kibwen 3y agoCinny is the Matrix client that copies Discord's UI. My friends and I use it as the default web interface for our private server, no complaints (other than the fact that it makes you appreciate Discord's sometimes-annoying "join all channels by default" feature; the opposite, classic IRC approach of forcing everyone to search for and manually join all channels scales better but is an absolute disaster for discoverability on small-to-medium servers).
- raziel2p 3y agoThis bothers me just as much in Discord as it does Slack/IRC. Has any chat software figured out this problem yet? Surely there must be some middle ground, like optional channel categories or something.
- spencerflem 3y agoThe discord solution is to hide channels behind a role, put a message in the welcome page with emoji reactions, and run a not to assign the role to anyone who clicks on the emoji. Only downside is that its publicly visible and very jank. I wish they had a built in way, & also some way to make channels line bot_commands default to muted