Let’s not lie to ourselves about it : Matrix is slow.

But, that’s fine ! All we need is a client that adapts to it.

For example : when trying to join a room. All clients, Element and otherwise, display a modal. If it takes forever, then you can’t do anything in the meantime.

Instead, a slow-friendly app would : add the channel to the channel list, saying ⟳ Joining... | You'll receive a notification once having successfully joined this room.

There, non-blocking.

Same for :

  • changing notification preferences ;
  • accepting/declining chat requests ;

Etc.

  • Linux in a Bit@infosec.exchange
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    13 days ago

    @KaKi87
    Or just a client that isn’t slow.
    Cinny is a my favorite (https://cinny.in/) but others like FluffyChat (https://fluffy.chat/en/) are also ok.
    No comment on the speed of those other options; Cinny is just weirdly fast compared to everything, and it somehow does it without even using sliding sync.
    Basically just use anything but Element and it’ll be better though.

    • KaKi87@jlai.luOP
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      13 days ago

      Cinny isn’t immune to Synapse’s slowness, even with sliding sync.

      • Linux in a Bit@infosec.exchange
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        13 days ago

        @KaKi87
        It doesn’t use sliding sync, but it is slow friendly (from what I can tell) and faster than Element.
        ElementX is the only one that’s faster as far as I know, but it has half the features and only works on phones, so I don’t know why anyone recommends it.

          • Linux in a Bit@infosec.exchange
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            12 days ago

            @KaKi87
            From my admittedly very informal testing Cinny lets you do other stuff while you’re joining a room.
            If that isn’t non-blocking, I don’t know what is.
            If you need a screen recording, I can make one.

            • KaKi87@jlai.luOP
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              12 days ago
              • For starters, the initial loading is “heating up” forever blocking ;
              • Then, there’s “connection lost” that refreshes the whole page ;
              • And when I finally reach the homepage and try joining a room, sure I can click another room, but the room I’m trying to join isn’t added to the list, so when I click another room, this one being joined disappears and I don’t know whether the joining process was interrupted or is still ongoing, and if I redo the join, it’s does exactly the same thing, as if it’s my first try ;
              • same thing for changing notification preferences ;
              • deleting messages is blocking ;