Regardless, if you believe the issue is the client, which would you recommend is the lightest/fastest client?
Shocking to see Arathorn deflecting about this. I run a server and just never use federation to avoid the problem.
Not sure why I keep getting flagged
My point was that saying “matrix is slow” is unhelpful given it’s completely unclear what aspect is being complained about.
Synapse being written in Python seems like a much bigger problem to me. This problem only exists in rooms not already available on the server, though; if you register with matrix.org then matrix.org rooms won't suffer nearly as much as running your own server.
Sadly, alternatives like Conduit still aren't fully-featured and they probably won't ever be as focus lies on the Element ecosystem. It's a real shame.
I don't know why Arathorn is further down the thread dismissing this problem.. it's a well-known problem in the community..
https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/1211 there's the seven year old bug
Ok, so matrix is useless then, is that it?
When joining huge chat rooms like some of those on the matrix.org homeserver, it can take a bit for the clients to sync up and get going. Performance is getting improved all the time, especially in terms of quickly joining a room. Latency also doesn't help, the protocol requires loads of round trips for the JSON payloads to go back and forth, so if you're not near your homeserver you're going to see some annoying problems.
I recommend giving the platform another quick try using https://app.cinny.in/ which to me feels very Discord-like in terms of snappiness.