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!)

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@cyrus Maybe the possibility of sending images with description? I've heard there is work in progress on this, but I'm not sure.

@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 :)

Move attachment preview above the composer, allowing to add captions … by surakin · Pull Request #2600 · element-hq/element-x-android

…to media/attachments Fixes #2573 I has too many UX changes for my taste so if one of the team likes it and wants to pick it up that's fine by me :) Type of change Feature Bugfix Technical Ot...

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@cyrus Thanks for the info. Matrix definitely has a very strong development. I noticed that clients have not been able to follow the implementation of these new features. The closest client is certainly Element. There are clients who have not yet implemented threads for example.

@CleoMenezesJr

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

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@CleoMenezesJr @cyrus kde's neochat can do that easily
on some other clients you're able to do it with some messing with markdown