I should love Matrix. It is a decentralised, privacy preserving, multi-platform chat tool. Goodbye Slack and your ridiculous free limits. Adiós Discord and your weird gamification. Suck it IRC with your obscure syntax and faint stench of BO. WhatsApp and Telegram can stick their heads in a bucket of lukewarm sick and sing sea shanties! Let's join the future! The problem is - Matrix is shit. Not …
I haven’t seen replies be useful at all, in fact they actively clutter the UI.
Editing and reactions are nice, but they’re not that important.
Yeah, well, that’s a massive opinion gulf we’re never going to meet over.
IRC already has emoji support 😀 and offline history sync, and is way smaller and faster.
You can enter emojis into anything that supports UTF-8, and so can claim everything supports emojis. I haven’t seen an IRC client with either an easy, integrated way to enter them, and I’ve also never seen an IRC client that will pull history from before I joined the room. Weechat certainly doesn’t.
Matrix is super clunky, and the fact that the reference platform is a shitty Electron application sucks. Even if you use something sane like gomuks, your client is perpetually lagging in Matrix features, often by more than just months.
Matrix angers me. It’s been such a mismanaged project. But I don’t see IRC having changed much over the past 20 years that I’ve been using it.
Discord, on the other hand, is an active pestilence. I only open that stupid web page on the direst of need.
Yeah, well, that’s a massive opinion gulf we’re never going to meet over.
You can enter emojis into anything that supports UTF-8, and so can claim everything supports emojis. I haven’t seen an IRC client with either an easy, integrated way to enter them, and I’ve also never seen an IRC client that will pull history from before I joined the room. Weechat certainly doesn’t.
Matrix is super clunky, and the fact that the reference platform is a shitty Electron application sucks. Even if you use something sane like gomuks, your client is perpetually lagging in Matrix features, often by more than just months.
Matrix angers me. It’s been such a mismanaged project. But I don’t see IRC having changed much over the past 20 years that I’ve been using it.
Discord, on the other hand, is an active pestilence. I only open that stupid web page on the direst of need.