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European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Teams

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Re: European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Teams

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It works faster & better than Signal Desktop.

Genuinely surprised at this - I've never heard of signal desktop not being fast, or good. Works a1 for me.

If you start to have higher message volumes, Element Desktop handles syncing on first launch much more gracefully than Signal Desktop.

Re: European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Teams

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Genuinely surprised at this - I've never heard of signal desktop not being fast, or good. Works a1 for me.

Signal Desktop is having its db corrupted every other time I launch it, and wants me to reconnect to the phone. The UX is OKish.

Your storage is dying, any Electron based app will lose its database in this scenario.

Re: European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Teams

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Matrix is in an interesting position right now because it's honestly not great, but it does exist.

And having control over something that is not great sounds a lot better than having no control at all (in this case over something else that is not great either, i.e. Teams).

Governments don't change easily. It took a threat of military invasion for some of them to start considering moving away from Teams. Whoever gets to replace Teams will probably stay for a while even if it is frustrating (again, just like Teams is).

Re: European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Teams

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My team started using Matrix/Element after years of frustration with Teams and Slack. It's far from perfect, but using a simple application with no built-in ads, AI, bloat, crap, etc is wonderful. I really hope the EU throws some serious money at them to get the bugs worked out, add some minor features, and clean up the UX enough that an "office normie" can onboard as easily as MS. My dream is that Matrix can do for…

I don’t know much about Matrix. Maybe in this case the key is money. But having worked at various startups and enterprises, it is very common for lots of money and resources to thrown at projects and for little or no progress to be made. Money might be a necessary condition but it’s definitely not a sufficient one. See Microsoft teams. Again I know nothing about Matrix, but I found your comment about UX concerning. U…

The case is not money, it's clear: > The move comes at a time of growing concern within European administrations over their heavy dependency on US software for day-to-day work amid increasingly unreliable transatlantic relations

Re: European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Teams

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Signal Desktop is having its db corrupted every other time I launch it, and wants me to reconnect to the phone. The UX is OKish.

Your storage is dying, any Electron based app will lose its database in this scenario.

Nope. It's only Signal.
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