THTheDong·Oct 21, 2023
Presumably realm in Element for Android. https://realm.io/ "Realm by MongoDB"
See also https://github.com/vector-im/element-android/issues/1025
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element-android
A Matrix collaboration client for Android.
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What it is
A Matrix collaboration client for Android.
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I can second this, I love being able to answer quickly from my mobile (I type [actually swipe] faster on mobile). It's also amazing how the push notifications clear when read…
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
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18 sourcesMultiple accounts also https://github.com/vector-im/element-android/issues/26 and they closed the issue for it in the Element X https://github.com/vector-im/element-x-android/issues/190
A pretty basic functionality which even Messenger supports....
In Matrix 2.0: The Future of Matrixit's a few weeks away. However, voice messages isn't in the initial release; it will follow shortly though. Hopefully the entirely new codebase will help resolve lag and other issues (please make sure the current issues are filed on github.com/vector-im/element-android/issues though, so we don't accidentally port them in EX...)
In Element X Matrix client now on iOS early releaseElement X is an entirely new client written in Rust + Swift UI/Jetpack Compose (https://github.com/vector-im/element-x-ios and https://github.com/vector-im/element-x-android) which will eventually replace the legacy Element apps (https://github.com/vector-im/element-ios and https://github.com/vector-im/element-android).
The features already exist serverside; we're just working on getting them out of beta.
In Matrix 2.0: How we’re making Matrix go voomI hope the new apps fix the ability to mention in replies on mobile.
Its a bug I face everyday.
https://github.com/vector-im/element-android/issues/4425
And Quick replies actually replying to the message.
https://github.com/vector-im/element-android/issues/5653
In The Matrix Summer Special 2022Thanks for pointing me at it; we revisited the bug and (at last) found what looks like the root cause: https://github.com/vector-im/element-android/issues/516#issu....
In Stories Are Coming to SignalThis is the one I am talking about : https://github.com/vector-im/element-android/issues/516
Same issue is discussed here : https://github.com/vector-im/element-android/issues/1192
(I cannot find my own ticket which was a dupe of these ones)
The first mention of it is 2.5 years old.
For my non tech friend this was so annoying (whatever she tried that stuck message was still there) that she wanted a solution fast. I gave up after a few tries to solve this. (Like the classic : uninstall / reinstall) And I decided she didn't have to suffer this, just because I have ideals about software philosophy. Thanks god, Signal exists and my friends were okay to trust me on this one more time :)
I really hope to come back to Matrix one day ! (We really enjoyed it for nearly a year before this bug came up)
In Stories Are Coming to SignalI can second this, I love being able to answer quickly from my mobile (I type [actually swipe] faster on mobile). It's also amazing how the push notifications clear when read somewhere else, this is not to taken for granted, it's not implemented on most other chat apps and it's a huge advantage of Element imho, sometimes it's buggy¹ but it's easy better than not having it and only Telegram is better in this regard from my experience.
1. https://github.com/vector-im/element-android/issues/4147 and also some other
In This Year in MatrixThe Element foundation should use some of that sweet money to:
1) buy FluffyChat and some serious UI designers, because Element is probably one of the worst matrix clients in terms of UX.
2) fix decryption issues that happen randomly even by just using Element on the matrix.org server: https://github.com/vector-im/element-android/issues/1721 as it's a real show-stopper once you hit it
3) add support for multiple accounts and identities (too many requests to list on the issue tracker), since federation is great, but it's not always wanted.
Disclaimer: I managed to convince a group of technical users to switch over to matrix. We stay for the principle, but not really for the experience so far. FluffyChat is the best client we tried on mobile. On desktop, I'm glad weechat-matrix and gomuks exist, because all the other clients "reek" to us. A
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nd even if you like the modern chat UIs, they're really not bug-free either.
Overall many clients and some severs to choose from, but I did prefer irc just for the simple-no-BS-clients alone (the protocol has nothing to do with it).
Thank you, that saves me time searching for dups. You'll have to forgive me, in 30 years I have only ever seen one bug fixed in response to a report I filed online.
But hope springs eternal: <https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/16599>.
The stuck messages are still there, in a newly upgraded Android Element 1.1.0, same as in the last two upgrades to 1.0.14 marked (2021-01-30) and 1.0.17 (2021-02-14). Other people report the same: <https://github.com/vector-im/element-android/issues/2494>
Android Element 1.1.0 seems to spam the notifications log with "Listening for events", "parcel size: 992", a bit less often than previous versions. I see it now at 22:16, 22:17, 22:18, 22:20, 22:35, 22:43, 22:49, 22:51, 22:53, 22:56, 23:00, 23:21. Better than 2x/minute.
I can imagine that the slowness (endless spinner when scrolling back in a
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room transcript) might be a consequence of delays in my homeserver -- privacytools.io -- but the app offers no hint as to where the stall is. Does my homeserver have anything to do with slowness of rooms ? I also don't see any way to check the version of Synapse running on the homeserver. Should I be able to find that?
An example of a very slow scrollback room is #_oftc_#mobian:matrix.org.
Looking on Element Web/Desktop's issue tracker: https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues?q=is%3Aissue... there are no open issues concerning segfaults currently. If you file a bug report with the details requested in the template then we'll be able to investigate and fix it, just as we did for https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/13553 (for instance). Otherwise, expecting us to be aware of this and to fix it without a bug report is not going to happen.
In terms of "slow rooms" - we'd need more details to advise. A bug report on github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues would give us something to go on.
In terms of stuck messages on Element Android - this sounds like a bug which was fixed months ago. Please upgrade.
In terms of getting a notification every time the app syncs - I have no idea what would cause that, nor have
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I heard of it. Please file a bug at https://github.com/vector-im/element-android/issues.
This is an essential extension of Matrix, great job!
For more signups, it would be great to support social logins. That has been implemented in some version of Matrix, but I’m not sure if it’s in Dendrite yet: https://github.com/vector-im/element-android/issues/2452
In Show HN: Hummingbard – decentralized communities built on MatrixThe reason we occasionally do experiments on Matrix (VR, 3D video calling, low-bandwidth, P2P and Cerulean) is to try to remind folks of the broader use cases of Matrix beyond chat and to encourage contributions and experimentation from the wider community, so these ideas can evolve outside the core team. In the case of Cerulean, it's also as a test jig to test out threading in Matrix for use in Element and other clients.
Meanwhile, just because one person (kegsay) spent a few weeks putting together Cerulean doesn't mean that the other thousands of people in the Matrix ecosystem were idle. For instance, Fractal merged matrix-rust-sdk support 2 weeks ago, which implements full E2EE (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/fractal/-/merge_requests/626), so your complaints about pantalaimon should shortly be irrelevant. (Plus it seems pretty miser
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able to complain about pantalaimon's dependencies; the fact that the project exists at all as an E2EE stopgap is unusual - XMPP has no equivalent for instance, as far as I know). In terms of other clients supporting E2EE: weechat-matrix, Mirage, FluffyChat, Seaglass, Nheko, Gomuks, Daydream and more have support. Complaining that there are clients which don't have E2EE is like trying to denounce the Web because there are browsers out there which don't implement HTTPS.
Element Android still has work to be done, as you've pointed out, but it is growing rapidly (https://github.com/vector-im/element-android/graphs/contribu...) and if development continues at this rate you should see perf, encryption bugs (almost all caused by https://github.com/vector-im/element-android/issues/2518), and even the "wonky file picker" and "off look and feel" and "captioned images" fixed.
Ironically, Cerulean is the first Matrix client to implement captioned images (after a fashion), so your captioned images on Android might benefit directly from Cerulean's work there...
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.
In Automattic invests in MatrixI think RiotX is supposed to replace Riot eventually, at least the Android client https://github.com/vector-im/riotX-android. Didn't find a link for an iOS client though.
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