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Stop Using Discord for Your Open source Communities | mattcen's mumblings
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Eh, I have a serious love-hate relationship with Matrix. For groups its fine. But trying to communicate with individuals on matrix is a major PITA, because of its end-to-end encryption which causes constant issues, IME. It's great, in theory. But, in practice is just far more of a PITA than its worth.
I've been considering switching to Matrix for individual texting. What makes it a PITA in your experience? Is it hard to create conversations, do messages not get delivered, or is it something else?
If you aren't on the same server, encryption doesn't always work very well, and you semi-frequently end up with conversations where you can't read each other's messages. Id you try get signed out of your app on a given device, you'll likely lose past conversations. Etc. It's just... obnoxious.