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What is the current state of Matrix? (feddit.org)

submitted 1 day ago by majoru@feddit.org to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Some years ago, I hosted my own matrix server for a few months. I'm an experienced self-hoster, but I remeber that Matrix was paticularly hard to host, requiring weird proxy rules, DNS adjustments, federation never worked reliably and push notifications never worked at all. I ditched the project soon because I also had no real use for it. However, I recently had some ideas where a Matrix server would be useful again. Has anyone attempted to install it recently and can tell me whether the situation has improved? Also, which server do you recommend? There still is synapse but I found it paticularly complicated to host. Dendrite is now archived and the current fork seems to be tuwunel which doesn't seem to be under very active development.

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[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I host my tuwunnel server and I am happy with it. The lack of a top level client is my turn down. Element X is good but still lacking, and fluffy chat is maybe better looking but more lacking.

My matrix use case is only WhatsApp and telegram backup using the bridges, actually... So YMMV.

[–] TypFaffke@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

My experience as well, though you might take a look at the recent fluffy chat 2.0 release. It is the closest to a usable client.

But I agree and it's baffling to me how a project backed by so many organisations and a considerable amount of cash fails to deliver even a decent user experience.