Looking for a good FOSS Matrix clisnt. What’s your favourite and why?
There isn’t one.
Because none of them have all features.
My favourites however are Fractal for desktop and Fluffychat for mobile because they both allow for multiple accounts in one window/app and they look nice, and Fluffychat has features that make it more customisable.
Yeah, it’s kind of infuriating how there’s really no great clients
Or complete clients, doesn’t even need to be great but incorporating all features would be nice.
Fluffychat on Android mobile. Feels familiar.
I like SchildiChat the most, since it has a nice UI and supports both E2EE and calls.
I used to use cinny, but i use fractal now just because its MUCH faster to launch
Schildi Next
- nice GUI
- Supports spaces
Nheko is my favourite client, it uses QT and is written in C++, its lightweight and works well on my machines with low resources, it also respects my system theme
Beeper is partially open source and I’ve used it for many years now.
Cinny as a PWA, or Schildichat ( FOSS version )
@gwilikers I would use element and I do use schildi but its a bit controversial as a client so element if foss and best is criteria
Schildichat is the only client I can use on my phone that implements both spaces and threads and doesn’t have a memory leak.
@thejevans umm element leaks?
It does for me. And it has for over a year. I have to reset the cache every day or it slows to an unusable crawl. The web client works fine, though
Edit: github issue: https://github.com/element-hq/element-android/issues/6617
same danlp6 just made myself lemmy account. Wait so it would be more risky using a more open client I use schildi anyway but like damn
Yeah, I dunno. I feel like Matrix advertises these features, but they are simply not ready for primetime. You can have a really good experience if you don’t need spaces or if you don’t want mobile access, but between this issue and sooo many issues with marking things as read, I just can’t recommend it to anyone.
Don’t get me wrong, I love using it to bridge all the proprietary messaging services I need to use, and for the few native matrix rooms that I’m in, but all the rough edges frustrate the hell out of me.
Tho I have to say I never had this issue I daily drove element for 2 weeks until switching back to schildi but never encountered issues (also I used Android 9 if this makes any difference)
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