Some of the key features expected by Discord users have yet to be prioritised (game streaming, push-to-talk, voice channels, custom emoji, extensible presence, richer hierarchical moderation, etc)
End to end encrypted chat, with the possibility to host your own instance, federated or not, and voice / video calls with screensharing.
However, bandwidth costs money, accordingly the free Matrix servers (remember: Discord was never free, you just paid with your data) can not provide the level of video streams that a commercial provider with a lot of money to throw at the problem can.
Also, federation of chat rooms.
Matrix is a mature chat client for secure communications, and more than that. But it is not aimed at gamers, it is not necessarily (as) trivial to use, and streaming gamers are definitely not the target group. So yeah, it’s not an alternative for a lot of what users seek from Discord, but it’s still a really good tool.
Complaining that matrix doesn’t have X & Y features of Discord is like complaining that you can’t use a Hammer to bake a cake. It’s designed for a different job :)
Basically fuck and all. It’s a barely functional corporate chat room with a mosh pit of a call feature that only sorta works.
Matrix is about as ready for daily driving as Wayland was 4 years ago.
It’s useable, but I less you have your head so deep in the sand that your finding dune worms. It’s impossible to argue it’s useable for anyone but the most die hard foss folk who would rather mutilate themselves then use anything closed source.
The funny thing is it really hasn’t improved since the pandemic, the last time I really evaluated element. What the 100 employees of element have been doing for the last 6 years… I have no idea
My private groups solved this by using Matrix for text chat and Mumble for voice. It has push-to-talk and outstanding sound quality. Hosted Mumble servers are cheap, and self-hosting is pretty easy.
When Element Call (MatrixRTC) eventually leaves beta, we might switch to that, but it’s hard to beat Mumble for audio.
What does it have? Those are some pretty major features.
End to end encrypted chat, with the possibility to host your own instance, federated or not, and voice / video calls with screensharing. However, bandwidth costs money, accordingly the free Matrix servers (remember: Discord was never free, you just paid with your data) can not provide the level of video streams that a commercial provider with a lot of money to throw at the problem can.
Also, federation of chat rooms.
Matrix is a mature chat client for secure communications, and more than that. But it is not aimed at gamers, it is not necessarily (as) trivial to use, and streaming gamers are definitely not the target group. So yeah, it’s not an alternative for a lot of what users seek from Discord, but it’s still a really good tool.
Complaining that matrix doesn’t have X & Y features of Discord is like complaining that you can’t use a Hammer to bake a cake. It’s designed for a different job :)
Basically fuck and all. It’s a barely functional corporate chat room with a mosh pit of a call feature that only sorta works. Matrix is about as ready for daily driving as Wayland was 4 years ago.
It’s useable, but I less you have your head so deep in the sand that your finding dune worms. It’s impossible to argue it’s useable for anyone but the most die hard foss folk who would rather mutilate themselves then use anything closed source.
The funny thing is it really hasn’t improved since the pandemic, the last time I really evaluated element. What the 100 employees of element have been doing for the last 6 years… I have no idea
That is a must-have not just for me, but any other fucker in the channel who doesn’t want to be muted.
I don’t want to hear the fuckin darth vader breathing, dorito crunching, parents arguing, dog barking bullshit on the other end of the mic.
My private groups solved this by using Matrix for text chat and Mumble for voice. It has push-to-talk and outstanding sound quality. Hosted Mumble servers are cheap, and self-hosting is pretty easy.
When Element Call (MatrixRTC) eventually leaves beta, we might switch to that, but it’s hard to beat Mumble for audio.