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What am I missing with Matrix? (herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol)

submitted 2 days ago by klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I will be upfront with this, and say that I've never been a huge fan. But I did reinstall a Matrix server, and some clients to see if it'd gotten better in the year or so since I've last used it.

This just... Kind of feels like a more centralized XMPP with group chat folders that sort of function? The spaces feature is neat, but I've tried 4-5 clients, and every single one of those throws all of them into the same screen as the DMs by default, and I can't find a way to change that.

Am I missing something here? Like. I want to at least see what people like here, I just can't.

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[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 day ago

The spaces feature is neat, but I’ve tried 4-5 clients, and every single one of those throws all of them into the same screen as the DMs by default, and I can’t find a way to change that.

"show all rooms" is how you turn that off in element

Nheko also supports spaces and has a filter to only show DMs, it also allows tagging rooms to do custom grouping of chats. But at the moment only element properly embeds calls with the new element-call system.

[-] klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol 2 points 1 day ago

Element/Element X on mobile both seem to be missing that, and I'm predominantly on mobile for... Most chat apps now. Only exception is I do usually do discord voice calls on desktop because of push to talk. Do you know of any mobile clients that'll do that?

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

SchildiChat Next is a close fork of element x with some great added features, like custom color and layout options.

It has a "pseudo space" feature which allows grouping by a set of predefined filters and the filter "chats not added to spaces" would give you this. This pseudo space will then show up under the name "space orphans" :D

This settings page can be found under Settings > Turtle Tweaks > Spaces > Pseudo spaces

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