I will be upfront with this, and say that I’ve never been a huge fan. But I did reinstall a Matrix server, and some clients to see if it’d gotten better in the year or so since I’ve last used it.

This just… Kind of feels like a more centralized XMPP with group chat folders that sort of function? The spaces feature is neat, but I’ve tried 4-5 clients, and every single one of those throws all of them into the same screen as the DMs by default, and I can’t find a way to change that.

Am I missing something here? Like. I want to at least see what people like here, I just can’t.

  • sobchak@programming.dev
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    3 天前

    Yeah, it is probably worse in terms of UX. I’ve been intentionally using “worse” software, developed mostly by volunteers, that’s free (gratis and libre), and doesn’t spy on its users for a long time now though. For instance, FreeCAD and GIMP is pretty bad on the UX side, and FreeCAD is even pretty buggy; but I don’t feel like I’m being exploited by using them. Cinny does look nice.