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.

  • Lemmchen@feddit.deOPEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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.

    https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/

    That unfortunately doesn’t specify the extend of the E2EE support (like search), but I appreciate your effort.

    • ono@lemmy.caEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Does it have feature parity with Element yet?

      Not yet. It’s in beta.

      https://element.io/labs/element-x

      EDIT: Nheko is NOT a mobile client.

      If you specifically meant mobile, you could have said so. Your statement was, “every other client has even more drawbacks when it comes to E2EE.” Nheko disproves that statement. It also suggests that some alternative mobile clients might handle E2EE at least as well as it does. You might want to try them.

      By the way, text search with end-to-end encryption happens to be tricky to implement, and Matrix projects aren’t funded by corporations with deep pockets. Tempering your expectations regarding development speed is probably worthwhile here.