> Matrix isn’t perfect but it has only improved in the 5 years I’ve been using it.
I'd very much like to disagree.
From the top of my head, in the past few years of using Element Web:
- Notification center is now gone.
- Room search is now only limited to official Matrix rooms.
- At peak it consumes ~2.2 GB of RAM.
- UI feels more sluggish by the day.
- Loading it now takes ~10 minutes.
- Using it as an IRC bouncer (to Libera) is now gone, which was what initially attracted me in the first place.
And I don't even use the voice / call functionality of Element Web.
I somewhat understand the reasoning behind the decisions, but I feel like they should have improved the UX first before working on the protocol itself.
I'd very much like to disagree.
From the top of my head, in the past few years of using Element Web:
- Notification center is now gone.
- Room search is now only limited to official Matrix rooms.
- At peak it consumes ~2.2 GB of RAM.
- UI feels more sluggish by the day.
- Loading it now takes ~10 minutes.
- Using it as an IRC bouncer (to Libera) is now gone, which was what initially attracted me in the first place.
And I don't even use the voice / call functionality of Element Web.
I somewhat understand the reasoning behind the decisions, but I feel like they should have improved the UX first before working on the protocol itself.