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Giving Up on Element and Matrix.org
The Matrix.org network has great potential, but after years of dealing with glitches, slow performance, poor UX, and one too many failures, I’m done with it.
Matrix.org essentially reinvented the wheel, swapping out XML for JSON and incorporating technologies like WebRTC and, at some point, end-to-end encryption (E2EE) as built-in rather than an extension, although from a practical standpoint it doesn’t make much difference as long as metadata isstill unencrypted. France’s central administration adopted Tchap, a software based on Matrix.org, Germany’s armed forces and healthcare institutions rolled out Matrix-based tools, Luxembourg launched its creatively named Luxchat4Gov, and even Sweden’s social insurance agency joined in. This feels like such a low-hanging fruit in terms of architecture design, yet Matrix.org, and later on New Vector never really appear to have had that lightbulb moment of “Hey, wait, the Open Telecom Platform provides everything Matrix needs right out of the box and would make large-scale deployments significantly easier (and cheaper) – let’s use that!”.
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