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In my dreams I manage a locally-hosted Matrix homeserver in our company's VPN. (We're not big.)

They just added voice calls via web UI. Not E2EE yet but if you're on an encrypted VPN then that's kinda moot anyway.

I like the idea of Matrix, but - can you get simple, thin, GUI clients for it like you have for IRC? IIRC, most GUI clients for it feel like something running inside my web browser...

Many options here: https://matrix.org/clients/

Seems to be more on the "glossy" and "web client" end of the spectrum in general but probably there is some reasonable compromise to be reached from the proliferation of different clients.

Element is a pretty nice client for matrix. Only been using it for a week but it's not too shabby on Windows/Android.

https://element.io/

I haven't had much occasion to use it (I dipped into a gaming group that used Matrix but quickly fell out of it) but https://github.com/poljar/weechat-matrix seems mostly adequate if you are a weechat user and just need the text chat features. Feels just like IRC.

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