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> The admin panel is at https://github.com/element-hq/element-admin
I think author uses regular synapse install and there is no apt package for element-admin, manual build would be required with no update process.
> Element Web & X support captions - i think this is honestly the worst of both worlds
if app_old has features A,B,C,D and app_new has A,C,D,E it frustrates both groups of users. Which app are you actually supposed to use? Having feature parity with the old app is essential before moving on with newer features. And I am still waiting for that to tell people to switch.
In Self-hosting a Matrix server for 5 yearsWe did address the elephant eventually with https://github.com/element-hq/element-admin a few months ago.
In terms of VoIP interop - yes, one of the worst bits of Matrix is that the legacy 1:1 VoIP calling is not interoperable with MatrixRTC-based (multiparty) VoIP calling, but we ran out of time/cash to implement interop and instead focused on making MatrixRTC work well. (Does XMPP give you E2EE multiparty calling ooi?)
In Self-hosting a Matrix server for 5 yearsThere's a bunch of outdated info in here, unfortunately:
> Does not have an admin panel
The admin panel is at https://github.com/element-hq/element-admin (but it's relatively new, so many folks haven't noticed it exists)
> No image captions
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> This is silly, but while (official?) bridges support image captions, official Element app does not.
Element Web & X support captions. (Element Web doesn't currently support authoring them, but can display them - obviuosly this is on the todo list though).
Element Classic has basically not been touched in 2.5 years, unfortunately, and so yes - doesn't support them. But at this point the old app is just not being developed; we don't have bandwidth to do both.
> Slow notifications
This sounds like it might be overloaded server problems ftr.
> Element X is Slower
> Somehow, it is slower. Clicking on
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a conversation takes 0.5-1.0 seconds to load it, compared to almost instant load on Classic.
This was an Android specific bug which was fixed a few weeks ago; EXA should now be instant as it should be, at least on nightlies: it was stuff surrounding https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-rust-sdk/pull/5841 and https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-rust-sdk/pull/5854. Unsure if the fix has made it into a build yet.
EDIT: the fix shipped in stable Element X Android a few weeks ago.
> Conversations are sorted by... who knows. It is not recent nor alphabetical.
It should be by recency.
> Onboarding is bad
Sorry, but you have to run an auth server (matrix-authentication-service) if you want Element X to work.
EDIT: if i've got any of the above wrong please just say, rather than downvote :D