do you use element web on the phone?
> It's incredibly slow to propagate messages.
was
> Initial set up is very confusing and offers far too many choices.
thing of the past, currently there are two choices, in the future there will be only one
> I've never worked out how to find rooms. Regularly someone will give me a room name and I can't find it or join it.
let someone invite you to the room or share a link
> Their entire service went down (did someone say "decentralised"?) a few months ago.
afaik only matrix.org went down
correct; the rest of the network was unaffected - it was just one instance (albeit the biggest one). https://matrix.org/blog/2025/10/post-mortem.
do you use element web on the phone?
> It's incredibly slow to propagate messages.
was
> Initial set up is very confusing and offers far too many choices.
thing of the past, currently there are two choices, in the future there will be only one
> I've never worked out how to find rooms. Regularly someone will give me a room name and I can't find it or join it.
let someone invite you to the room or share a link
> Their entire service went down (did someone say "decentralised"?) a few months ago.
afaik only matrix.org went down