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tl;dr :

  • Hexchat IRC client app development stopped
  • Linux Mint team was building IRC client to replace Hexchat
  • The team tried Matrix and liked it
  • Linux Mint’s communication channels are moving from IRC to Matrix
  • The desktop app will be named Matrix to avoid confusion
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[–] [email protected] 70 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (17 children)

I‘m not sure if I like this. I use Matrix for a couple of years now and to be honest the more I use it the more I hate it.

Everything just feels slow, clunky and some basic things are quite complicated to archive and some functionality just does not work.
All that was okay for me in the beginning but it never got better.

IRC and XMPP also had their problems but I often wish them back nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (8 children)

I think Matrix is the future, it just needs better designers and implementation.

They really, really shouldn't do things differently than discord just to be different.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Discord is the Gold Standard for you ? Why ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

It didn't take over most of its competition's userbase magically, they have a well designed system despite its flaws.

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