Post #2269214

2026-02-09 23:00 UTC

(matrix cont.) Overall Matrix feels like a brilliant evolution on IRC, in a wonderfully old-school kind of way. Unfortunately that brings with it some goofyness and hard to understand intricacies. Matrix is one of the few options that lets you self-host *and* still connect with all the other communities, and that's wonderful. I want it to succeed, and it'll probably be my choice, but it's gonna take work to operate communities in it effectively.

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@mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-02-09 23:02

Here's hoping all that was useful to someone. I spent some time looking for a thread/post/blog like this when I first went searching, but couldn't find it, so here's me paying it forward for the next person.

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@mtothevizzah@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-02-10 01:04

@mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place As someone who spent almost twenty years on IRC and fled the Freenode implosion in May 2021, I now sort of wish I had stuck it out with Matrix (which was hella jank almost five years ago) instead of going to Discord. I wonder how/if this will impact how we run REAC and the Advances chat this year, what a mess.

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@chanakya@social.screamingatmyscreen.com 2026-02-10 05:19

@mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place for folks thinking of considering Matrix, please stay away. It has the most unusable UX, and I have a running list of companies/clients who have moved away from Matrix (Element) back to Teams/Slack/Mattermost. Usability is an issue that Matrix has willfully chosen to ignore under the garb of "Decentralized and secure messaging". Additional reference: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/im-never-going-back-to-matrix/

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