Doesn't Riot.im support images well enough for your use-case? It's free
software, and it's becoming fairly mature lately.
The root issue for both Telegram and Matrix seems to be that they're
bridging through a legacy platform like IRC. Would it be fair to say
that this problem will slowly resolve itself in time, as users leave IRC?
I don't mean to troll: I've been on IRC myself for 20+ years, but the
protocol has been stagnating and clients requires too much setup for
newcomers, particularly when you consider identity, presence and
persistence. Other open source projects are migrating to Matrix or
Gitter, and soon or later KDE will need to make a decision.
On 11/06/2020 09.09, Carl Schwan wrote:
Hi,
Strong +1 on this. The current situation is far from good. Currently to
have a good communication application I need to either use a proprietary
platform, use a platform who doesn't support images and for which I need
to set up a bouncer on my server or use a platform which lags a lot and
which doesn't always relays my messages to the bridges.
Carl
Le mercredi, juin 10, 2020 11:16 PM, Nate Graham <n...@kde.org> a écrit :
Carson's email about bridging #kde-devel to Telegram got me thinking: we
should have a discussion about the situation we're in regarding chat
services in KDE.
The current Matrix solution does not seem not optimal to me. I have
really tried my best to be a good citizen and use Matrix as much as
possible over the last year but I find myself gravitating back towards
Telegram because of how much better the overall UX is, especially for
fast-moving discussions and those involving images.
I haven't found a Matrix client that offers both a half-decent UX and
also a reasonable featureset. The service suffers from lag, sometimes
severe. Periodically the federation breaks, or the bridge between IRC
and Telegram breaks, leading to people's messages silently vanishing.
The implementation of the bridge itself impedes discussions between
Telegram users and IRC/Matrix users because when a Telegram user replies
to a post made by someone on IRC or Matrix, that person person can't see
the message being replied to. Overall it just does not feel like a great
user experience.
This situation really needs to be fixed, somehow. I'm not knowledgeable
enough regarding chat software to be able to propose solution, but I
don't feel like the status quo is something we should live with. Can we
fix Matrix? Or should we migrate to something that offers a better UX?
Nate
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