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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by zanny on Thursday December 20, 2018 @12:42PM (#18727082)
I could count the number of good, modern, high featured XMPP and IRC clients on one hand. At least compared to their proprietary counterparts. Matrix has at least as many either mature (Fractal, Riot) or up and coming clients as I'd consider usable with anything else, and it has bridges into all that legacy, something I have never seen IRC or XMPP manage well.

If you have legitimate grievances with the protocol and feel you can see flaws in it, make an issue on the tracker now while its still a 0.x release, doesn't have the broad adoption you describe, and while the team (knowingly) can make breaking changes simultaneously released to matrix.org and riot.im and cover 95% of the users still.

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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by pseudalopex on Friday December 21, 2018 @12:14AM (#18731546)
Riot is the only client Matrix.org calls stable.[1] I would not call the desktop version good. The only third-party clients that are close to complete are Nheko (which has been abandoned) and FluffyChat (which is for Ubuntu Touch).[2][3]

There are no stable servers.[1] The reference server is being completely rewritten.

Matrix bridges work about as well as XMPP bridges in my experience.

[1] https://matrix.org/docs/projects/try-matrix-now

[2] https://matrix.org/docs/projects/clients-matrix

[3] https://github.com/mujx/nheko

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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by krageon on Friday December 21, 2018 @03:10AM (#18732032)
The phone experience for riot is really, really bad (extremely high battery usage, even when the app is not in use. I'm aware of the technical reasoning behind it and I frankly don't care as a consumer). This was (and is) the one barrier stopping me from using it and converting my friends to matrix (they're not platform loyal at all).
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