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Matrix is a fantastic project and I'm glad it hasn't yet been encumbered by open core or any other licensing nonsense. It truly is one of the best open source initiatives in the space and a huge shout out to Matthew for what he's done here. I just wish the team leads were more receptive and responsive to certain UX issues. I work at a company that pays over a million dollars a year for Slack. There is so much money being left on the table. It's just nowhere close to being in a state where any company of our size can move over to it.

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We are trying to be pretty radically responsive to UX issues - eg https://element.io/blog/an-unrecognisable-improvement-elemen... and now rebuilding the apps on mobile. What are the “aaargh” table-flip UX issues which you feel are being ignored?

Custom emoji. These are actually a critical part of many slack workflows and not just for fun.

Custom emojis is something that exists since already quite some time in the matrix ecosystem, thanks to an unofficial im.ponies.user_emotes extension to the spec. Unfortunately, element only support displaying these emojis and not sending them. But various other clients does support them: Nheko, Fluffychat, NeoChat, ...

Disclaimer: I'm one of the maintainer of NeoChat

Schildichat now supports rendering them, but not uploading them or reacting with them. It's a step forward. It also can embed videos from certain links.

But is it worth a million dollars a year and giving up all your internal chat logs to a company that will likely lose them when they get hacked.

“No more tabs” → this looks interesting. Will be very helpful cor personal communication. Thanks. I must install it again and check where Element is right now.

I really, really want an option to disable read recipes display in rooms on Mobile. Just like on Desktop. Same goes for all the status messages (like joined/left). In general I miss some more customization options on Mobile.

And in general I‘d love to get rid of sending read recipes but I remember there being a whole discussion around that.

Private read receipts are supported in recent Synapse and Element versions. You can enable them in the settings, though they're missing some quality of life, for instance to be able to enable them per room and being able to toggle them more quickly.

I can't seem to find that setting in the iOS app settings.

Ah, it might be that the mobile clients don't support it yet. :/

In Element Web for example, if I search for my username, all I get are the results in which my nickname is mentioned instead of also including messages sent by me.

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