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I'm able to use it also, perhaps due to 40 years of computing experience, but .... for people used to something like Slack, probably not that great.

I keep wishing that somebody would replace Matrix with something we don't have to be so embarrased about.

Ehhhh... There's so many issues with it. It is equivalent to if Microsoft Teams was a Matrix application. The problem is that the UI is so clunky, buggy, and in general not robust enough compared to other matrix applications. Other matrix applications just don't have things implemented and also feel the need to copy Element's terrible designs.

It's hard to get people to move from what they know and use to something else. If you moved them to Google, they'd say it's shit. Same for Zoom. They all do some stuff better than others.

Element is perfectly servicable. They're using Element Pro which is billing itself as built for government. The first problem is they called it pro, which sets expectations higher than they should be. It's not going to make them go WOW this is so much better at first glance.

Trying to onboard a gigantic number of people is going to be difficult for a system that doesn't already have a gigantic number of people on it. I can only imagine how rough the system is at the moment, but it'll work out.

You are wrong. There's text, voice, and video. In group as well.

Element does support video calls. I had one with my friend a few months ago

I just googled "open source teams alternatives" and Mattermost seems to be much better.

what security dialogs? and what race conditions? do you know what that means, or are you just throwing around words?

if you mean the "verify your new device" dialog, yeah, it has a problem. it won't appear most of the time on clients that were not open when you sent the verification request from the new device. I don't know why, and this is not comfortable, but then I can start verification from a device I already have, and it will work. or I can also just fill in the password from my password manager, which you surely have too.

but I haven't seen other problems with it recently.

XMPP at least functions reliably, if you ignore all of the protocol extensions and use it like IRC with images of course.

which does not even have a bolted on security that way.

Though the main and only good Android client got archived.

calling element classic good is a bit of a stretch. it was very slow.

Yeah, there's that angle also. Like how you can start phoning it in when you have a shitty manager that kills your passion. I have a feeling that that is part of the overall corporate culture at MS rather than just the case for people unlucky with which manager they ended up with.

Assuming you meant that "focus" as a pun that refers to their ability to focus on their work to the point of doing it well.

If you meant that it might have been some rogue developer that snuck in that change instead of a rogue manager, yeah, that's also possible.