Re:Signal is experiencing technical difficulties
by tombert on Monday September 27, 2021 @10:02AM
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Granted, this was about 1.5 years ago, so a lot has probably changed, but when a fellow engineer friend and I decided to switch to Matrix, we have a lot of trouble getting the end-to-end encryption working. It required a lot of finagling and sharing of keys and was pretty annoying.
Being engineers, we did figure everything out, but I couldn't see any non-technical users going through the headache, particularly when Signal is just "install and you're done".
Re:Signal is experiencing technical difficulties
by fauigerzigerk on Monday September 27, 2021 @10:16AM
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That one appears to have been fixed. It's just a one-click thing now to enable E2EE.
Re:Signal is experiencing technical difficulties
by tombert on Monday September 27, 2021 @10:18AM
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oh? I'll have to check it out then. I would definitely prefer federated chat.
Re:Signal is experiencing technical difficulties
by kitkat_new on Monday September 27, 2021 @10:49AM
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Matrix now and 1.5 years ago is day and night
I haven't been very successful convincing people to join. Some tried but were immediately put off by the complicated UI. It takes too much explaining and hand holding.
Those constantly in-your-face "session verification" prompts are bewildering and useless. And then it's impossible to disable spell checking in the Element client.
I hope it continues to get better.