being 100% honest here, matrix in general but element in special has grown SO MUCH in these last few months, I remember the first time I got in touch with it the whole experience felt so clunky I went back to signal, while today (specially with the develop message bubbles on element-web, can’t wait to see those on android as well) it all feels so much better, to the point I can confidently use it myself and recommend it to other people
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Element is good but the encryption aspect of it needs to be simplified especially for casual users.
in what way exactly? I can see it when it comes to verifying sessions and verification of other users in E2EE chats, but in general use it’s pretty simple
Yeah, its great to see more features being added to element.
If only it wasn’t electron.
Not a feature that I will make much use of, but I love seeing the app grow and hopefully pull in more people.
Has anyone tried the VoIP features? How’s the bandwidth? How is it with far away countries?
Super excited to see it come to fruitation at all though :D. I’d love a decentralized VoIP future!
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Is there a new VoIP implementation or are do you mean the existing one? If it’s the latter, it’s just a wrapper around a Jitsi meeting and it’s worked very well in my experience.
Element did and still does use Jitsi for >2 participants. 1:1 calls are and have always been WebRTC based not using Jitsi. IIUC this update just has improvements to the WebRTC based 1:1 calls.
Huh, really? I had a 1:1 call via Element on Android the other day and could swear it was all just Jitsi. Maybe it was just the UI that looked really similar.
It might depend if the room is considered a “DM” or a multi-user room. Were there any bots or similar in the room that may have made Element decide that it was actually a >2 person conference?
Well, now time to wait for getting in on F-Dtoid…
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I hate voice messages, can we please not have those? They’re impossible to search and I can’t read them immediately.
I agree with you. There is no way to search voice messages. But I think a lot of people will enjoy this feature.
As I’ve never used WhatsApp I use Skype to stay in touch with my family. 10yrs later my sis recently found out that it supports VM, too. I wish she’d never found that feature. 😬
I agree, they’re annoying. They’re necessary to reach more people and gain popularity though
It’s also an accessibility thing. Many illiterate people use voice messages in apps like WhatsApp to communicate with their friends.
