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I'm never going back to Matrix - Terence Eden
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Yeah, well, that's a massive opinion gulf we're never going to meet over.
You can enter emojis into anything that supports UTF-8, and so can claim everything supports emojis. I haven't seen an IRC client with either an easy, integrated way to enter them, and I've also never seen an IRC client that will pull history from before I joined the room. Weechat certainly doesn't.
Matrix is super clunky, and the fact that the reference platform is a shitty Electron application sucks. Even if you use something sane like gomuks, your client is perpetually lagging in Matrix features, often by more than just months.
Matrix angers me. It's been such a mismanaged project. But I don't see IRC having changed much over the past 20 years that I've been using it.
Discord, on the other hand, is an active pestilence. I only open that stupid web page on the direst of need.
That makes sense -- different features are important to different folks.
For emojis on IRC I just use the system keyboard. So it's easy on my phone, but hard on a computer. I didn't know that matrix had an emoji button -- I guess I haven't missed it :p
It's true that IRC doesn't pull scrollback the first time you join a room in any implementation I'm aware of. I'm ok with this limitation though because I tend to stay joined to the rooms I want to read. I like hexchat, although I'm aware that it's a dead project :'(
We agree on Matrix angering us lol.