• NX2@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Matrix is great as a discord alternative, I’d just wish it wouldn’t light my Server on fire every time I open element. Like I can live stream 4K to multiple people over that thing, but reading messages takes 30 seconds of fan screaming?

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      1 year ago

      For this reason I hope the element X rewrite also replaces element on desktop eventually. The element X beta android app is so much snappier than element with the new sliding sync, it’s supposedly 6000x faster but it just feels on par with signal or any other performant app, not being impacted by how many rooms you’re in or how big those rooms are anymore.

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        1 year ago

        Sliding sync is just your client running on the server. Now your server’s load is even worse. If you self host, well, too bad. Be a New Vector customer I guess?

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      1 year ago

      It still has the issue that joining a popular channel can bury a server for a couple of hours whilst it downloads the entire history since it was created (hillariously trying to connect to thousands of servers that no longer exist… the error log was… impressive).

      The new protocol was announced on here recently but synapse is stull running the old protocol with a proxy in front and the proxy just means clients can log off whilst it’s updating, it doesn’t fix the issue.

      It’s probably fine if you don’t federate it, but I could just use my IRC server for that…

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      Don’t ever bring this to the people in charge or you might be told “sorry for that” “but now it’s been fixed, deployed any week now” “you are a liar, this has never been true” and “it doesn’t really matter for the general case” either in the same post or few responses apart. Matrix has been in a permanent state of unstable mess, and the leadership disingenuous attitude made me lose hope that this will ever change. More people should start reading through the fanfare and superlative blog posts, which, admittedly is the thing they do the best and much better than the other projects out there.