Riot/Matrix 1.0 General Thread

The state isn't nearly that bad. Sure, Riot is the only truly fully-featured one, but others are still usable.
weechat-matrix supports encryption for text conversation, so it's quite usable as a general IRC replacement. Nheko too, if you're into GUI but want something more lightweight than Riot. Discord/Slack addicts should be okay with Riot, since the former are also Electron apps. Macfags even have a client with fully-implemented encryption, including files and such.
Sure, alternate clients could be better and with more features that'd bring them closer to Riot, but they aren't exactly *bad* when compared to standard clients for various other protocols.

Quaternion seems to be the best Matrix client, but it's still very worrying that all the reference/semi-official software is web-based.
I love the web, but javascript is hellish.

Quaternion looks a bit to IRC-y (in a clunky UI way, not simplicity-wise) for a GUI client to me. Nheko and Fractal seem to have a bit cleaner UI.
Making the flagship client a webapp actually makes a lot of sense. It makes it really easy for new users to try the platform out (they just need to open a webapp), you can link to public rooms so that guests can preview them without installing software and you can still pack them with Electron to make them a bit closer to a native app.

Nheko and Fractal look like Telegram, which is phoneposter garbage. I know this, because I unfortunately used to use it.
All this humongous space, and it's not because of large easy-to-read fonts, it's because of empty space for touch-screens.
>It makes it really easy for new users to try the platform out
Yes, but it makes the platform worse. Making a platform easier to try should only be done when it improves the platform.

Don't get me wrong, I hate discord, but my friends use discord and I use it to voicechat while gaming with them.

You're no better than your friends, then.

2. Both me.

What's the point if I have no one to talk with?

I think there's a Jow Forums room but you not having friends is not riot's problem.

B-but my bf is next to me! I don't need chat to uwu at him and get headpats.

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