In my quest for a #Discord alternative for my gaming group, I'm going to toss #Matrix into the bin of "nope". It ticks most of the boxes, but holy fucking hell the constant nagging to revalidate every fucking login is not going to fly. None of my friends are going to tolerate that shit just to talk about #TTRPG scheduling, campaign planning, and general life events. Intensely user-hostile.
@SharpCheddarGoblin "validate login"?
@viq Any time you log in from a different device (which includes browser tab, lol) you must provide your recovery key.
@SharpCheddarGoblin I think you can also confirm the device from another where you've done that previously.
TBH after seeing a couple, that's a pretty well designed and usable system for making sure you're encrypting your messages to the person you think you are, and not someone who managed to inject themselves into the conversion. And quite annoying if you completely don't care about the E2EE part.