Anachu

I’ve been using matrix with a few people, and I like it conceptually. However, it’s definitely got some very rough edges. Mobile clients don’t seem to even support calling, and as I found out recently some homeservers just don’t support calling? custom emote/sticker support is client dependent and somewhat janky on all of them (no favoriting emotes, fluffychat not showing custom emotes with other emojis, etc.). I want it to be great but I just don’t see it being user friendly enough for mass adoption right now.

On the other hand, I’ve also been trying Fluxer. It’s a lot smoother of an experience, (aside from screen share), and I really see it as a great drop in replacement for discord with friend groups. But, it’s not got federation yet, and I don’t believe E2EE for DMs or voice calls is here yet either. I hope it can keep developing and deliver on these promises.

I drink the water, which I apparently need to live or something, then I have to go put the water somewhere else five minutes later. I drink the water, I go to a place to un-drink the water, I wash my hands, I leave, then I have to drink more water. guess where that water ends up? not in me! I give the water to my body and like a child it tosses it out and demands more.

yes but as I said elsewhere in the comments here, last I tried it the emoji picker didn’t show custom emotes. To use them you had to specifically type out the emote name in colons 😔

this does seem like a pretty nice mobile client. thanks for sharing!

though unfortunately there’s no iOS version, so my partner can’t use it

Sure Matrix supports custom emotes, but clients’ support for them is still spotty. Element X didn’t even show them at all when I tried, and fluffy chat would let you see them but had no emote picker. you just had to type the name into chat between colons

I don’t know what you’re trying to imply, but yes custom emote support is that important for me and my friends

Matrix is cool but the lackluster custom emote support on mobile clients is kind of a deal breaker for me

If they had a super cheap $1 tier just for being able to use custom emotes anywhere, I’d honestly love that. Though I feel like the $5/month for Plutonium is a lot better than $10/month that discord nitro goes for

I’ve been trying Fluxer recently and it’s been really great. though not as nice as Stoat with emotes, they still give 500 emote slots and 500 sticker slots for servers on the main instance. The mobile app that recently came out are a bit rough around the edges, but works well enough to replace discord for me (if only I could get all my friends on it…)

yep! you can even turn on a notification sound for messages in the current channel while the window is focused

that is stunningly beautiful. I wish I could own a physical one myself

though it is another Firefox fork, I’ve recently switched over to zen browser and absolutely love it. I’d recommend others that don’t want to use chromium but are put off by Mozilla’s BS to take a look