for me personally, Element is a non-starter because it refuses to support custom emotes and stickers. Sable has great support for them, while also being one of the most fully feature clients I’ve tried.

https://docs.sable.moe/features/ https://sable.moe/

A client for Matrix. It’s the nicest one I’ve tried so far.

huh that’s weird. Are you using the Play Store version? they broke the android app for a short while before pushing a fix a little a while ago. Maybe the play store version is behind and just now experiencing that? Right now on GrapheneOS the app installed with obtainium works fine on my phone.

yiiiiiikes…

I wasn’t aware of this policy. thanks for sharing!

yeah my Sable client just doesn’t show that. Though it shows that star icon as “Steal Sticker” in the right click menu. Not the same as favoriting.

I wasn’t aware Sable had mobile clients, but it seems like it’s only available on sideloaded app stores on iOS. Automatically a dealbreaker for any friends/family that has an iPhone probably. I’m not in the EU so it looks like they’d need to go through a whole process of installing something on their PC and using a VPN on their phone just to get the app store…

As far as Matrix clients in the Apple app store go, I’m only aware of Element X and Fluffychat, and since Element X didn’t support custom emotes/stickers when I last checked, that leaves Fluffychat as their only option for a mobile app. (Please don’t try and suggest web apps, no one wants to actually use those)

https://fluxer.app/blog/how-i-built-fluxer

The main dev has maintained that Fluxer is not vibe coded. Whether or not they’re completely AI-free though, I’m unsure of. But at the very least they didn’t just ask Claude “give me a discord like chat app” and then shove that onto the internet.

I do personally use Sable and Matrix to chat with some of my friends. I think it’s really cool. However, I don’t think it’s user friendly enough for mass adoption. There’s so many clients but none of them provide an ideal experience.

I send a voice message from sable to my friend using fluffychat on mobile? they can’t listen to it.

I try and call my friend through sable? their mic/camera doesn’t work and my screen share is a black screen.

No client I’ve seen allows you to favorite emotes or stickers

As far as I’m aware mobile clients simply don’t support calling

Videos just don’t play on my sable desktop client.

Maybe there’s solutions to these issues, but if each new user is expected to troubleshoot things like this, Matrix is never going to become widely used. I’m excited for Fluxer because it seems like it could really become the frictionless experience that Matrix isn’t

I’ve been using fluxer for a little while now, and it is pretty good! Though I’m looking forward to bug fixes for the screensharing and eventually federation being introduced

I’ve been using it for a few weeks now, and it seems really great. it’s nice seeing actual progress and improvements in the mobile app. The glacial speed of Stoat had me pessimistic that anything could replace discord, but Fluxer’s honestly already there. The screen sharing and video calling just needs some work (and also federation!)

thank you for your work!