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'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives (www.techradar.com)
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[–] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

I run a Matrix server and it's deffo YMMV based on the server admin and how good they are at maintaining things.

Getting the federation to work can also be a chore and a half. Otherwise it works super well. The clients often implement features on top of the protocol (looking at Element and their weird jitsi integration for instance).

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I and my group are all just on matrix.org. We didn't want the risk of dealing with potentially less reliable servers or federation.

    We also use Element desktop and Element X for Android. I think I read that the old Element might have supported audio calls? But these days, it's video only, with the very weird UX of having two different options for video calls (one being, as you say, Jitsi). I assume there's a historical reason for that, but it doesn't make much sense as a design today, to me.

    Having Discord-style audio rooms built around the idea that people are not broadcasting all the time (as opposed to the more chat-like design of today) would be one of the most impactful comparatively low effort (considering they already have video calls working) things they could do, IMO.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    I and my group are all just on matrix.org. We didn’t want the risk of dealing with potentially less reliable servers or federation.

    Absolutely a strong way to go.

    Yea, there are some historical reasons for the integrations, but they could do a better job evolving the UI to match the current state of things for sure.

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