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.

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

yes but as I said elsewhere in the comments here, last I tried it the emoji picker didn’t show custom emotes. To use them you had to specifically type out the emote name in colons 😔

this does seem like a pretty nice mobile client. thanks for sharing!

though unfortunately there’s no iOS version, so my partner can’t use it

Sure Matrix supports custom emotes, but clients’ support for them is still spotty. Element X didn’t even show them at all when I tried, and fluffy chat would let you see them but had no emote picker. you just had to type the name into chat between colons

I don’t know what you’re trying to imply, but yes custom emote support is that important for me and my friends

Matrix is cool but the lackluster custom emote support on mobile clients is kind of a deal breaker for me

If they had a super cheap $1 tier just for being able to use custom emotes anywhere, I’d honestly love that. Though I feel like the $5/month for Plutonium is a lot better than $10/month that discord nitro goes for

I’ve been trying Fluxer recently and it’s been really great. though not as nice as Stoat with emotes, they still give 500 emote slots and 500 sticker slots for servers on the main instance. The mobile app that recently came out are a bit rough around the edges, but works well enough to replace discord for me (if only I could get all my friends on it…)

yep! you can even turn on a notification sound for messages in the current channel while the window is focused