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I'm never going back to Matrix - Terence Eden

shkspr.mobi I'm never going back to Matrix

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...

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I'm never going back to Matrix

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This one is probably one of the most disappointing one; Matrix had everything I wanted in terms of chat features. Programmability-wise, all it was an encrypted JSON sender/receiver, but in a good way. It basically could be extended however you want since it provided a useful primitive. But the encryption just randomly fails, and it's hard to figure out why, causing you to miss messages. I eventually gave up on building a side project for it.
- Your name gave me a chuckle. Yeah its unfortunate.
  
  Just a little bit of trollingâ€™
  
  [object Object]
  
  what does it mean ?
  
  A VERY common javascript error. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4750225/what-does-object-object-mean
  
  thx
- Same here - the encryption issues killed my project too, the problem is that Matrix's OLM/Megolm protocol implementation doesn't handle device verification and key distribution robustly enugh across multiple clients.
  
  Right. It's not like other services have implemented it better though, or is there any? I don't think we should punish them for trying to do it in a more usable way than with signal
- i definitely encountered this in the past but element has constantly improved for my self hosted situation

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