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[–] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 2 points 3 years ago (4 children)

Totally, I too think that one should prefer Element for multiple reasons (feature richness, app availability, ... I mean, the web widgets absolutely rule imo), after all, it's UI is similar to Discord/Slack but it also feels somewhat different here and there. For the first 1-2 hours it can be a bit overwhelming for newbies. Cinny's UI is much closer to Discord's UI, and it seems fine for chatting as far as I have tried it.

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[–] Akip@feddit.de 1 point 3 years ago* (3 children)

the encryption broke first just for the desktop app, later also for web browser several times, people couldn't see what I was writing to them, all while it worked in element. I was able to create nested rooms but nobody could see them for joining.. the overall experience was painful and it probably cost me my one chance to convince people to get away from discord after their policy change to record audio from calls

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[–] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 2 points 3 years ago

Oh shoot nvm then. I only used it for like two weeks before I went back to Element because of it's feature richness. And even during the time I used it I rarely chatted.

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[–] inso@lemmy.sdf.org 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

Weird, when was that ? In onboarded 6 non-tech people recently on element and it went fine and easy.

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[–] Akip@feddit.de 1 point 3 years ago

Yes element works, I use it still. I had issues with cinny as a discord replacement. This was in the time from march-april.

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