I think that’s the protocol’s fault. I’m no expert on sypase, but as someone who used to be a diehard Matrix evangelist and has used it for about a year, my belief is that the protocol itself simply has too many features for any stable and robust implementation to exist. The reason synapse is the only proper server implementation is because it’s too diffiicult to make one. Likewise, there’s only one fully functional client, and only ever will be, because there are too many features and they refuse to stop adding more so no other client will ever catch up. And that one client has constant bugs, anti-features (like the annoying “secure your data” popup or whatever that comes up every time I open it), and is a web application (horrible for a secure app).
Just setup a self hosted server. My family are now all chatting on it. Works great and simple to use.
Matrix is an overhead mess, from what people have advised me. Avoid.
*Synapse is a mess
The Matrix protocol is certainly more complex than XMPP, but I think a lot of bad fame comes from Synapse being big, bulky and complicated.
I think that’s the protocol’s fault. I’m no expert on sypase, but as someone who used to be a diehard Matrix evangelist and has used it for about a year, my belief is that the protocol itself simply has too many features for any stable and robust implementation to exist. The reason synapse is the only proper server implementation is because it’s too diffiicult to make one. Likewise, there’s only one fully functional client, and only ever will be, because there are too many features and they refuse to stop adding more so no other client will ever catch up. And that one client has constant bugs, anti-features (like the annoying “secure your data” popup or whatever that comes up every time I open it), and is a web application (horrible for a secure app).