I’ve been trying to use Matrix to replace sites like Discord or Slack. But it seems that if a user creates an invitation-only room in a server, then invited users who are registered on other servers get errors when trying to join. Not very useful error messages either: “Failed to join room”. (In my case, I tried creating accounts and rooms at nitro.chat and then at converser.eu, but friends registered at matrix.org don’t manage to join).
Quite a let-down. Anyone who’s facing the same problem and has maybe managed to solve it?
the thing that drives me absolutely into matrix-hate-rage is the scrolling. if youre in a matrix space with lots of little different windows attempting to scroll through almost any context is a crapshoot at best.
i like the idea of matrix, but its implementation is hot garbage.
Me too! When I’m scrolling in a room reading a backlog it will jump all over the place. I don’t know why but that is super annoying. It’s as if it’s some html / css anchoring going horribly wrong or something. First I thought it was caused by the client, but it happens in Element as well as Fluffy chat. I try to avoid Matrix as much as possible because of that.
One of my favorite matrix games is playing “guess where it thinks the unread marker should be.”
I’m just as likely to be right as it is.
Anyone who says Matrix is a suitable replacement for Discord is delusional.
But you can self-host Revolt chat, which is very similar.
Matrix 2.0 is pretty close.
2.0 doesn’t even support spaces…
Yeah it does. The main app didn’t yet last I checked but there were other apps that did.
Such as?
schildichat
Schildichat doesn’t support 2.0 or SlidingSync.
Revolt with federation (they are hinting XMPP) would be very nice
As of right now, Revolt does not feature any federation and it is not in our feature roadmap.
That’s why I said “would”
You also said “they are hinting at XMPP” when they’re not even hinting at adding federation.
