It's fascinating to see so much fundamental work taken on by the team at matrix.
One thing I still can't understand though, as a matrix user, I try to get on my circle onto it. But instead of hearing praises for the technological superiority of the network, all I get is hate and quick dump of its use.
I wondered why. And then realise their claim is justified. The market is dominated by centralised pseudo e2e encrypted services. And people stick to them for two reasons, network effect and the fact it just works. The official client is plagued with UX bugs. Push notifications works some of the time, sometimes the app would hang trying to open or access a channel, some message get stuck as the last entry with no means to delete them. It makes the network barely usable since clients can't keep up with whatever is going on at the network level.
I think technological advances shouldn't be made at the expense of the UX. Today's problem with matrix is adoption, and the slow adoption rate isn't due to not breaking the 100byte barrier.
People would greatly benefit in getting an alternative car engine that doesn't burn polluting fuel, and matrix is delivering a propulsion engine to send us to Mars, at zero cost to consumers.
I still admire the project and its contributors, I just wish those hundreds of real issues on each of their github projects were being prioritised over cutting edge innovation.
One thing I still can't understand though, as a matrix user, I try to get on my circle onto it. But instead of hearing praises for the technological superiority of the network, all I get is hate and quick dump of its use.
I wondered why. And then realise their claim is justified. The market is dominated by centralised pseudo e2e encrypted services. And people stick to them for two reasons, network effect and the fact it just works. The official client is plagued with UX bugs. Push notifications works some of the time, sometimes the app would hang trying to open or access a channel, some message get stuck as the last entry with no means to delete them. It makes the network barely usable since clients can't keep up with whatever is going on at the network level.
I think technological advances shouldn't be made at the expense of the UX. Today's problem with matrix is adoption, and the slow adoption rate isn't due to not breaking the 100byte barrier. People would greatly benefit in getting an alternative car engine that doesn't burn polluting fuel, and matrix is delivering a propulsion engine to send us to Mars, at zero cost to consumers.
I still admire the project and its contributors, I just wish those hundreds of real issues on each of their github projects were being prioritised over cutting edge innovation.