Mastodawn

May 12, 2024

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 Spaces need a full revamp. They are unreliable and clunky on most clients.

The Matrix DAG needs to get reworked as well. I've seen so many rooms run into state resets, breaking them completely until everyone joins a new one. GrapheneOS gets this done to their rooms quite regularly, to the point of having left Matrix entirely.
A chatroom breaking is an absolutely insane issue.

While its technically in the works, I'm not seeing any real movement on it: Synapse needs to go. It's slow and a gigantic resource hog.

I don't use Matrix anymore. The sheer amount of tiny and big jank just keeps piling on, and I dont want to deal with it.

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May 13, 2024

@cyrus Oh, another thing.

Migrations don't exist. That's an absolutely ridiculous oversight.

For one, https://ems.element.io/tools/matrix-migration

But also, Portable Identities are on-ice due to funding.

Migrate your existing Matrix account | Element Matrix Services

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May 14, 2024

@cyrus

Portable Identities is more what I'm thinking of. A federated protocol without account mobility is a big problem.

The EMS tool there, in my opinion, barely counts as migration. You still lose all data and all your contacts cant be sure that the new account is actually you in a fully secure way (unless you tell them, or choose to leave all rooms).