Crosspost: https://feddit.de/post/8502102
Element for Android doesn’t support searching in encrypted channels and I think you can’t use E2EE in the browser at all(?), plus basically every other client has even more drawbacks when it comes to E2EE.
My team recently tried RocketChat, but E2EE is obviously an afterthought for that project as it has even more limitations than non-Element Matrix clients (no searching, no pinning, no file upload, no edit, etc.). Plus Jitsi integration seems to be buggy right now (at least on my Windows installation).
What else is out there that’s not on my radar? Is Matrix with Element really the best option right now? Is there no project that puts E2EE above all else?
Edit: Should be self-hostable and (FL)OSS.
I would expect search to be added
That’s what I expected fo regular Element for Android as well, but it never came into existence.
Element X
I fail to find a feature comparison between the two. Does it have feature parity with Element yet? If not, what’s missing?
Firefox
Firefox is my main browser and has been for the last 15 years or so. It definitely was Firefox, but maybe I’m confusing it with a different issue. There definitely was some feature in Element Web that didn’t work and told me to use Desktop instead, unless I’m imagining things now.
Nheko
Interesting, I’ll take a look.
EDIT: Nheko is NOT a mobile client. I’ve misinterpreted your statement.
That unfortunately doesn’t specify the extend of the E2EE support (like search), but I appreciate your effort.
There definitely was some feature in Element Web that didn’t work and told me to use Desktop instead, unless I’m imagining things now.
It’s search.
Even in Element, last time I checked, search was incredibly half-baked and mostly useless.
I know you don’t want to use Signal, but it actually has searches that function.
You cannot compare Signal to Element at all.
Like, at all.
Signal has no search for Groups, there are no public groups or channels. Signal has a monopole server that is supposed to be OpenSource but nobody can run their own one.
Strange reply.
- Read the post, the use case doesn’t require public groups.
- Read the messages above, I was talking specifically about search
- Does this mean that Telegram (the messaging app) is closer to Element (the Discord-like app) than Signal (the messaging app), because it has channels?
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