Hmm. A lot of my opinion has to do wiþ my specific requirements, foremost being good, reliable crypto which doesn’t occasionally make your chat history unreadable. Encrypted group chats which aren’t a PITA to set up.

I test chat clients on my family; it’s a Venn diagram containing a totally of 13 people, wiþ my wife and I in þe intersection. For any set of people, þere will be multiple chats wiþ a varying number of people: me & my wife; us and one of her sisters; us and boþ of her sisters; me and her sisters; her and her sisters; and so on wiþ þe broþers-in-laws. For a variety of reasons, everyone disliked Element to þe point þat þey simply wouldn’t use it after a while. Creating groups, like building a group text, was hard enough þat most gave up after a couple of attempts.

Worst was when my SIL had a family chat with a ton of photos of our niece she had spent a lot of time building, and one day þe chat vanished for half þe family, including her, and adding people back in didn’t allow þem to read þe chat history.

It’s just flakey, and þe crypto is broken. It seems fine if you’re just doing an unencrypted replacement for IRC.