Native OIDC support...something I wish more self hosted apps would prioritize. I shouldn't need to maintain a bunch of user account systems on my own servers.
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All I read is Marketing Tech Speak that sounds no different than anything else that gets advertised in my face. At work, we use Teams. It is a pain sometimes when it gets a little buggy, but integrates into SharePoint/OneDrive and the noise suppression in meetings is pretty awesome. At home I use discord or GChat because that is where all my friends are. I don't assume I have privacy on any of these platforms and they all work on my phone and computer.
How is the user experience? Ultimately, give me privacy, but if the user experience and UI don't give any improvements over the corporate ones, I will have to try it some other time.
"Blazing fast" makes me check out so fast.
You can self-host it, making it as private as you want.
But my question is about the user experience and UI. I can run a docker script, but I care about the thing I can see and interact with.
The user experience is generally worse than Discord, like any federated system compared to centralized platforms.
There is Cinny, a client with an UI similar to Discord. Element X is a great mobile client, and imo far superior to Discord for 1 on 1 chats (to be fair, I really dislike Discord 1 on 1 chat experience, so I'm biased).
Edit: It's worth noting that Element X does not support Spaces yet, which allows for grouping of rooms similar to Discord Server.
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I currently use Synapse with bridges to Signal and Discord, and Matrix API. Is Element X a better way to go server-side now?
as I understand, Element X is a client application (for mobile, for now)
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Not available on f droid yet it seems
~~https://f-droid.org/packages/io.element.android.x/~~
f-droid seems a few versions behind.
https://apkpure.com/element-x-secure-messenger/io.element.android.x/download
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My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
The new release isn't out on F-Droid my friend, last updated 3 months ago as of this comment.
last F-droid weekly news mentioned problems with their reproducible build process
Schildi chat has SchildiNext on f-droid
not on f-droid official yet, but on a separate repo. the page also refers to the list of customizations
Indeed, probably in the coming days
Space support and multi account support and I'll install it. Fluffychat has many features but still laggy.
What's the difference between the normal app and element X? Why create a new app?
EDIT: I installed it, but can't verify for some reason.
EDIT: It works now, and it's very fast compared to the other client. It's a shame spaces aren't supported.
Good ol' Rust Rewrite fixing everything.
Normy here, I think it's a whole different framework which is faster and more reliable I think. Also the normal app technology outdated so maybe it's difficult to add new features to it.
I’m still sad they stopped work on dendrite. P2P level decentralization, with E2EE, would be amazing.
These are still great improvements though. I'm hyped that loading seems to be so much faster.
as I understand they may resume work on it, but they have so few human resources that they nedded to put a full stop to it for now
You still can't sign in to Element One on it.