I think support for multidimensional ratings would be a game changer.
Instead of forcing everyone into a binary or handful of reactions to a post, imagine if you could rank something as funny, what language it's written in, the quality of the post, if it's spam, if it contains a picture of kittens, or any other thing the user cares about.
I am not enough of a Discord ninja to really provide an apples-to-apples of many of those things, but I can say with the highest confidence that Zulip addresses #1 in such a stellar way it actually pains me how much the open source community ignores using it in favor of fucking Slack or fucking Discord, where, yes, information goes to die
The official Matrix Client is a mess of bugs (Especially relating to verification) that have been there since inception. It is frustrating to see; it's as if the developers haven't attempted using it.
there isn’t an “official Matrix Client” any more than there’s an “official Web Browser”.
If you’re talking about Element, we just rewrote the mobile apps and fixed verification issues (although support for inbound verification will land next week): https://element.io/blog/deep-dive-into-element-x/
I am indeed referring to Element: PC(Windows) and Android. I'll give the new version a shot next week.
I will note that another class of bugs (or single bug?) that put me off is related to messages and or edits to them sometimes showing up for some people, but not others, and/or on one client, but not another. (e.g., an edit will show on mobile, but the old version will show on PC)
I think support for multidimensional ratings would be a game changer.
Instead of forcing everyone into a binary or handful of reactions to a post, imagine if you could rank something as funny, what language it's written in, the quality of the post, if it's spam, if it contains a picture of kittens, or any other thing the user cares about.
I am not enough of a Discord ninja to really provide an apples-to-apples of many of those things, but I can say with the highest confidence that Zulip addresses #1 in such a stellar way it actually pains me how much the open source community ignores using it in favor of fucking Slack or fucking Discord, where, yes, information goes to die
I also believe they address the P2P video <https://zulip.com/features/#:~:text=Voice%20and%20video> but they offload that to Jitsi rather than trying to reinvent the wheel
They don't even have to host Zulip themselves, as zulip.com offers free hosting for open source communities. Just pains me
I forgot to call out that Matrix(protocol) seems like a worthwhile call out in looking at useful core technologies.
The official Matrix Client is a mess of bugs (Especially relating to verification) that have been there since inception. It is frustrating to see; it's as if the developers haven't attempted using it.
there isn’t an “official Matrix Client” any more than there’s an “official Web Browser”.
If you’re talking about Element, we just rewrote the mobile apps and fixed verification issues (although support for inbound verification will land next week): https://element.io/blog/deep-dive-into-element-x/
I am indeed referring to Element: PC(Windows) and Android. I'll give the new version a shot next week.
I will note that another class of bugs (or single bug?) that put me off is related to messages and or edits to them sometimes showing up for some people, but not others, and/or on one client, but not another. (e.g., an edit will show on mobile, but the old version will show on PC)