If this lands on your feed, tell me about different features that are just missing in Matrix.
It can be anything, but please don't include memes like "unable to decrypt message" or other things that are already in the works, or maybe has already been merged (e.g media captions). Also, no, I won't "just use XMPP".
Some examples include better forwarded messages, rich profiles, or a live location sharing, just to name a few.
(I am writing something about this, boosts appreciated!)
@newbyte no client apart from Beeper does it, but that's "legal" as per the spec
(An image sent with m.in_reply_to will render fine on most clients)
@CleoMenezesJr that is what media captions are, they were officially made part of Matrix on the 22nd of March this year, but have been merged for a lot longer.
What we're waiting for is for clients/apps to allow sending that too, because without letting the user send these kinds of events the fact that it's in the spec is kinda useless.
Though, a community member worked on getting this in Element X Android and I would bet that some other clients are working on it too :)
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True, I'm not sure why threads specifically are so underrepresented in Matrix 🤔
Either way, I'm just glad we've got so many people wanting to make matrix better
@CleoMenezesJr glad to announce I had that in mind too, maybe you're interested in these MSCs:
They propose two different ways to do that :P
Signed-off-by: Johannes Renkl [email protected] A proposal to properly support marking forwards as what they are. Thx to @Sorunome and @krille for getting things straight.
@cyrus It has already improved dramatically over the past 12 months, so I have no doubts that it will keep improving.
Of course, there is the neverending story of calls as well.
@fell guess what...
(pretty much) stable MatrixRTC Implementation: https://call.element.io
relevant MSC: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/4143
This is already in the new mobile apps (Element X) and also available as a labs feature in desktop/web Element :)
@cyrus per device push rules would be great. The spec sort of half supports this but synapse doesn't implement it and, I believe, push rule profile tags are slated for removal in the spec. 🫤
Also, do-not-disturb settings for push rules would be great.
@cyrus Finally. Someone comes in to combat the toxic "XMPP is just better" attitude.
Thank you. Seriously.
@AmyIsCoolz oh, media albums!
I should add that to the document, in the meantime, you may be happy to know that MSC3382 is working on this :3
Rendered This is an alternative version of #2881 with all attachments in one event, that is more optimal, but have harder fallback. Related issues: Attach multiple images (files) to message Show a...
For one, https://ems.element.io/tools/matrix-migration
But also, Portable Identities are on-ice due to funding.
@cyrus I genunely dislike how detached the idea of rooms and spaces are. Typically when I join a server on discord for example I expect to be able to experience the entire server and then pick out the channels I'm not interested in.
Rooms feel like group chats rather than actual channels in part because they feel seperate from what a collection of community chats if that makes sense???
This is more of a client issue tho.
I also want account migration, better profiles and much better performance
@cyrus Granted I don't use Matrix much (I don't know many people who use it, and everytime I use try myself I'm met with bugs, crashes, network failures and 4 minute waits to sync 2 messages).
I do really want an actually good federated alternative to discord tho, but first impressions matter a lot with chat apps
@cyrus attaching an image to a text message. currently, they are sent separately. I usually emulate this behaviour by writing my text, adding image, and then sending the text message while the image is uploading.
(at least, I think this is missing in Matrix? I use Element but I think it'd be weird asf if this was a part of the protocol and Element just didn't do it)
This got merged into Matrix 1.10 on the 22nd of March this year, from what I'm aware Beeper is the only client that currently allows sending this, but Element X, SchildiChat, Fractal and probably more already had a quick patch to allow viewing, with work being done on redesigning the in-app flow for sending media to allow sending this too.
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@zayd and you're completely the wrong fucking target audience!
Message me when I can do a damn reply in popular XMPP clients.
A reply, not a markdown quote.
@roland oh, yeah, I think there was something blocking that? Not sure on the specifics, but some clients DO implement the relevant MSCs early
see https://cinny.in or https://fluffychat.im
Just hoping that sometime soon we'll see this merged (after so long)
@penguin42 there's indeed event types for location, but that's a one-off thing.
Live location would allow you to share and update your location every n seconds.
There is a Labs feature for this in the (old) element Android app, but it isn't fleshed out yet. That's why I put it as an example.
1. support incoming and outgoing RSS feeds so you're serving as a decentralized hub for data flowing through those channels.
2. support basic features for writers as outlined on textcasting.org.
and thanks for asking! 🙂
@gim there's been a lot of work on Read Markers (or rather making them more reliable) since Element started work on Element X on Android and iOS
Whilst on Android there's currently a longstanding bug that makes sync take longer than expected, once sync goes through and gets started, the read markers are VERY reliable now, even upon restarting the app.
I would assume those improvements will come to Desktop/Web once they're fully ready :)
@gim That is probably less of an issue with the app and more of an issue with the fact that it uses an experimental way of syncing which has not quite made it into stable yet, as such instead of it being directly in the server, it gets handled by a separate proxy program.
The Matrix Foundation and Element are currently in the process of simplifying Sliding-Sync (turns out the "sliding" bit doesn't work well with encryption) at which point it will go directly into stable versions of Synapse, the most popular Matrix Homeserver Software.
TL;DR: If you're not self-hosting the Sliding-Sync bit, chances are it just hung up. No worries on your end.
@Seraphyn most clients have an option to hide the "deleted message" placeholders, including Element :)
Check settings > Preferences > Timeline / Messages
@cyrus there are two features I am really missing:
- (better) support for high latency, low bandwidth environments (so not using polling to get events for example)
- encryption (and signing) for all events, not just a few select ones (reactions etc.)
And more clients/servers that are not only half feature complete because the spec is a giant mess would be cool to.
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