I wish they would help fix/maintain the Matrix-Purple bridge, which would allow more people to use riot servers with clients such as pidgin.
https://github.com/matrix-org/purple-matrix/issues/95
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#22Off topic but the language here ... What is it about it that makes it plastic? For example it employs the phrases "that said" and "not least" which are generic, throw aways.
New projects are a kind of success itself so we expect the principals to be ebullient. But the prose is over the top. It gushes. Quantum computing wasn't invented here.
It's the IT corporate form of Hollywood but in words: Another theoretically innvoative industry except it isn't: It largely can't make an original film.
The older I get, the more I am in agreement with English Profs: use a better adjective, could you? Don't repeat. Avoid generic over used phrasing. In short: is it too much to ask that your language had a pulse? Game? Personality?
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#23I wish they would help fix/maintain the Matrix-Purple bridge, which would allow more people to use riot servers with clients such as pidgin. https://github.com/matrix-org/purple-matrix/issues/95
libpurple bridging support is being achieved through matrix-bifröst (https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-bifrost), this is via node-purple.
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#24Good news! Now if only they can figure out how to make Riot usable with Encryption enabled without pulling your hair out every time you enter a room or chat with non-matching keys. While Riot has a lot of features, it is also not easy for new users. I've tried to convert at least 10 persons and none of them use it any more, citing not being able to figure out how to use it or simply not having the time to waste figur…
Have you tried since we relaunched encryption and turned it on by default 2 weeks ago? The UX has completely been rewritten and it should now be transparent - see https://blog.riot.im/e2e-encryption-by-default-cross-signing... . edit: To be clear, we no longer nag whenever there's an unverified login present - and unverified logins should increasingly be a thing of the past anyway given we now have cross-signing and…
I haven't, this should make a large difference!
Nice to see this finally happen :-)
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#25Good news! Now if only they can figure out how to make Riot usable with Encryption enabled without pulling your hair out every time you enter a room or chat with non-matching keys. While Riot has a lot of features, it is also not easy for new users. I've tried to convert at least 10 persons and none of them use it any more, citing not being able to figure out how to use it or simply not having the time to waste figur…
No offense, but this comment is outdated since the recent UX overhaul. You should check it out sometime.
The UX overhaul was two weeks ago, I don't check Riot website daily.
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#26Can someone give the “elevator pitch” of what sets Matrix apart?
Real-time decentralisation is the headline. Matrix allows you to host your own server, federate messages in real-time between servers, and still benefit from end-to-end encryption between multiple client devices.
Good place to get started reading: https://matrix.org/docs/guides/introduction
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
No offense, but this comment is outdated since the recent UX overhaul. You should check it out sometime.
The UX overhaul was two weeks ago, I don't check Riot website daily.
I was hoping not to come off as unreasonable. Just wanted to make it clear to everyone that things have changed while being terse.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you tried since we relaunched encryption and turned it on by default 2 weeks ago? The UX has completely been rewritten and it should now be transparent - see https://blog.riot.im/e2e-encryption-by-default-cross-signing... . edit: To be clear, we no longer nag whenever there's an unverified login present - and unverified logins should increasingly be a thing of the past anyway given we now have cross-signing and…
Wait... Naive question: shouldn't you, especially in this case, still nag the account owner about his own unverified sessions? What if a bad-actor homeserver slides in a new session to snoop around? BTW: I absolutely love the cross-signing move and riot/matrix in general! :) Thanks for your great work on this!
We do nag, in that all the green shields will suddenly go bright red. But we don't block the user from being able to send messages until they've resolved the problem.
It's possible we'll reintroduce this once cross-signing has been fully adopted though; it's tricky because we need to distinguish between encrypted rooms where you simply don't care if random users have unverified slides... versus ones where it's a disaster if an unverified session slides in. Finding the right UX for that is tough, but we think the current balance is an improvement.
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#29With E2E encryption in place by default is there any real advantage in using Signal instead of Riot client for everyday communication with my friends? Riot desktop app is definitely more polished and customizable, video quality on all of my devices also seems to be a lot better. Surprisingly the only thing that I am really missing is the ability to use custom sticker packs which got added to Signal a few months ago.
A short while ago (maybe 2 months?) I tried an audio call from Android and while I don't remember the details, the experience was bad enough that we both agreed to not do that again and use Signal in the future.
RiotX Android doesn't support calls at all according to the Play store page, while the old Riot Android client doesn't support cross-signing, search doesn't work, and it overall feels unpolished. It's still very much beta software.
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#30Good news! Now if only they can figure out how to make Riot usable with Encryption enabled without pulling your hair out every time you enter a room or chat with non-matching keys. While Riot has a lot of features, it is also not easy for new users. I've tried to convert at least 10 persons and none of them use it any more, citing not being able to figure out how to use it or simply not having the time to waste figur…
For me the main issue is the battery usage of Riot fdroid which is way too high (i don't know if the google play version have the same issue). Last time i tried it was using more than 50% of my battery just by sitting in the background.