Re:Automattic invests in Matrix
by tgsovlerkhgsel on Thursday May 21, 2020 @06:15AM
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A short while ago (maybe 2 months?) I tried an audio call from Android and while I don't remember the details, the experience was bad enough that we both agreed to not do that again and use Signal in the future.
RiotX Android doesn't support calls at all according to the Play store page, while the old Riot Android client doesn't support cross-signing, search doesn't work, and it overall feels unpolished. It's still very much beta software.
VoIP has historically been a second class citizen in Riot, but we're trying to fix that right now. The implementation in RiotX is in mid flight up at https://github.com/vector-im/riotX-android/compare/feature/v... and Riot Android will be killed off shortly in favour of RiotX.
I miss Telegram's stickers like crazy. I'm going to try to contribute art once they get the feature out.
Re:Automattic invests in Matrix
by Well_hello on Saturday May 23, 2020 @10:23AM
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sounds awesome - I am looking forward to it
Signal supports SMS, so you don't need dedicated app and can handle them all in one app
Re:Automattic invests in Matrix
by bilal4hmed on Thursday May 21, 2020 @08:25AM
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I think they had more metadata collection than signal mainly due to the design. They were making progress on it however, but I dont know the status of the work.
If you don't have any servers, you don't collect any metadata ;) We're playing with this at https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/dip_p2p_matrix/ and live at https://p2p.riot.im (albeit very alpha)
Surprisingly the only thing that I am really missing is the ability to use custom sticker packs which got added to Signal a few months ago.