Unless it’s changed substantially in the last few months, it really isn’t. I tried half a dozen different clients, from the bog standard to the bleeding edge and all of them seemed to implement features unevenly or not at all.
There’s points of friction that just make it worse to use, which isn’t something I can sell most of my friends on. Fluxer seems like a far better option for a 1:1 experience.
Stoat chat seems pretty decent open source alternative to Discord, tried it for a while and has similar usability, but same issue, “nobody uses it”, also development has been very slow.
If only matrix was as usable as discord I’m sure a lot of people would
It is. People just need to use an app that actually cares about good UI like Cinny/Sable. Element is trash.
Sable has every feature I could want and then some
Seconded on Sable.
Firstly, it already is. It depends on what client you use.
Secondly, no they wouldn’t. Even when all the work is done for them, nobody moves because nobody cares even when they say they do.
Unless it’s changed substantially in the last few months, it really isn’t. I tried half a dozen different clients, from the bog standard to the bleeding edge and all of them seemed to implement features unevenly or not at all.
There’s points of friction that just make it worse to use, which isn’t something I can sell most of my friends on. Fluxer seems like a far better option for a 1:1 experience.
Stoat chat seems pretty decent open source alternative to Discord, tried it for a while and has similar usability, but same issue, “nobody uses it”, also development has been very slow.