I will be upfront with this, and say that I’ve never been a huge fan. But I did reinstall a Matrix server, and some clients to see if it’d gotten better in the year or so since I’ve last used it.
This just… Kind of feels like a more centralized XMPP with group chat folders that sort of function? The spaces feature is neat, but I’ve tried 4-5 clients, and every single one of those throws all of them into the same screen as the DMs by default, and I can’t find a way to change that.
Am I missing something here? Like. I want to at least see what people like here, I just can’t.
I’d heard of DeltaChat, and I use Cheogram as my main XMPP app, but I’ll have to look into arcanechat!
Arcane/Delta are compatible/interoperable with each other, one of the DC devs (the aforementioned adb) is the dev of Arcane and it’s kind of his testing grounds, it has a few extra features like extra themes, markings on the official chats to help prevent scammers, and turning off accts at the profile select screen.
But tbh I went back to DC proper myself last week just because I didn’t get that much benefit (didn’t like the themes over the OG, only use one acct so far and it uses no battery so no need to switch it off, but I did like the badges on the saved/device chats and hope that makes it into the official). Plus the official has the experimental “channels” now that I wanted to play with, and you can enable “debug calls” now so I don’t need Arcane for that anymore. Still love adb and he’s still working on Delta too (and you can message him using either, his contact details are on arcanechat.me lol, and he’s heavy on the DC forum, which you can log into using DC)!
Basically “same thing, try both, you can ‘export backup’ from say Delta and ‘add as second device>import from backup’ in Arcane and be logged into both if you want.” I did that for a day or so while deliberating.