State events can be informative and spammy at the same time. That's why I made them now collapsed by default in #fluffychat
#Fluffychat
🥳 #FluffyChat 2.0.0 is released — now powered by Vodozemac!Together with the brand-new Matrix Dart SDK 1.0.0, which also uses Vodozemac — the modern encryption library for Matrix written in Rust.
https://ko-fi.com/Post/FluffyChat-2-0-0-has-been-released-with-Vodozem-L3L01GRELK
Fluffychat is the only one app for matrix for a old #iphone6 but ...
> Looks like WebRTC.framework/WebRTC (which was built for iOS 13.0) indicates that it is the fault of the webrtc plugin which needs iOS 13 at least. I don't know a workaround here so I fear that there is no way to fix it :-/ Only way seems to be to drop support for iOS 12 if no one else has an idea
Do you have an idea?
#fluffychat #dart #flutter #matrix #opensource #ios #ios12 #question #help #dev #webrtc #iphone
https://github.com/krille-chan/fluffychat/issues/724#issuecomment-2980192700
📣 Call for testing Vodozemac 📣
#FluffyChat
has merged Vodozemac.
If you are interested in help testing it, you can now install the beta version:
#FluffyChat on Android seems to have fixed its long-standing screen rotation problem, and that makes me happy.
Woot woot, the first messages encrypted and decrypted by using Vodozemac in #fluffychat
🥳 #matrix
Why is #Matrix so bad?
I really want to love Matrix, but it's terrible. Let's not get into that it's more #IRC than Discord, and there's a reason why #Discord, despite its drawbacks managed to get such a big mind share, that's beside the point, but relevant and we'll come back to how.
Many different things I have installed offer instant messages as a way to follow communities, get support, etc and I really don't wanna use something I use personally or I have issues with due to whatever corporate fuckeries they undertake. This means I generally want to avoid #Telegram, #Signal or #Discord.
As a result, I ended up leaning into using a Matrix. It feels like the best of the rest and that's because it's lead by a bunch of old men who don't understand why people prefer Discord over IRC.
Anyway, what made me really commit was that I finally found a client that could do multiple accounts. So I had #Faraday installed and though a bit temperamental, things were working fine.
One month ago, Faraday updated, because it's forked from an old version of #Schildichat and shit was outdated. So after some prompting the developer updated it a bit. It broke the client completely and wouldn't open. I impatiently waited and one month later a new update was released that still never fixed my issue. I thought, no way can the developer and #FDroid be that collectively incompetent, which means it's probably on my end. So I cleared storage on my other phone and the app opened. Hooray!
So I ran to my main phone and reset storage. Finally Faraday opened and then it began… Or didn't. Because once I logged in and it crashed, as it does, it was stuck on the Initial Sync, waiting for a server response. I didn't wanna be impatient, so I waited and waited and waited and nothing changed. Clear cache, clear storage, uninstall and reinstall, nothing changed.
So I'm thinking something has to be wrong, so eventually I said let me check with a stock app, so I grab #ElementX and log in and suddenly I get this stuff about authentication and I'm like WTF?
Now I swear down. I hate #privacy zealots. If you work in software, get them away from your decision making process. I don't dispute they have valuable input, but it's at the cost of the end product, every single time.
So I'm there trying to authenticate a device and I'm stressing because I just want all my old chats back. These aren't even private chats, they're public chats. I just don't wanna have to go hunting down room addresses again. But Matrix is making this harder than it needs to be and seem scarier than it needs to be.
In the end I realised that I didn't have another device to authenticate me and I didn't have the encryption codes saved. I ended up trying to circumvent it by using a web based client, which didn't work. And after some anxiety, I said fuck it and reset and then I'm finally in and find all chats preserved. But now at the bottom of all the rooms it says it's not encrypted and I'm like, fuck!
Turns out this has nothing to do with the encryption before. I found this out later. Anyway, so I'm trying to authenticate Element X using the browser and that refuses to work, because switching screens is bad, so I'm forced to use two devices. Give me strength! And then hilariously the Element X doesn't want to authenticate anything else. Yay, you're useful.
So my question is, when all these old arse developers who have clearly dreamed the same dream for fifty years were sitting around, why didn't anyone ask why it needed to be so hard. Secret agents are using Signal not Matrix. Even if you were adamant, why couldn't you just use a #TOTP? Problem solved, less friction. Why_can't_you_just_be_normal.gif
Anyway, now that I'm back in, I try Faraday again and it's still not working. I'm forced to give it up, I actually didn't mind the #UX and the icon is better than Schildichat. So I search for a new client with multi account support and the only choices are cross platform clients, ugh. I end up going with #FluffyChat and the UX isn't great, which is part and parcel of anything developed to run across platforms. I would rather something someone made for Android with love and understanding every time. But alas.
Even then, I had to log into the web to authenticate, because for some reason we can't just have a #2FA TOTP pop-up. Ugh!
Oh and the mind share thing was because they were targeting modern needs as opposed to trying to recreate an out of favour platform or bury people with terrible UX.
@filippodb @sicurezza matrix funziona ma Element è complicato da usare. Per favore, fate un post sulle alternative a Element. Ce ne sono alcune davvero ben fatte e che rendono l'uso di Matrix davvero piacevole. Io consiglio #Fluffychat che è molto più simile ad un normale client tipo Telegram / WhatsApp
Ich mag #Matrix, also den Messenger. Wenn es nur nicht so leer wäre..
#messenger #fluffychat
@braid @unifiedpush @krille nice to hear.
That was the main reason of testing why i do not use #PolyculeClient and #fluffychat
... a Messenger without Notification what is it worth ...
I never though I could spend that much time on updating @unifiedpush in #PolyculeClient ... Well, I'm learning a lot about the deeper integration of the #Flutter engine into the Android runtime as well as some code decisions I was facing about #FluffyChat together with @krille four years ago. Damn, that's been quite a while !
Thanks to the amazing support of the #UnifiedPush devs I'm gladly not alone on that stony path. Thanks a lot for your help !
#FluffyChat Android wirft bei uns (GrapheneOS) seit dem 1.26.1-Update immer eine zusätzliche Notification, wenn wir einen Chat mit neuer Nachricht öffnen. Wir bekommen also eine zweite Meldung, obwohl wir gerade die erste durch Öffnen des Chats losgeworden sind.
Es gibt noch kein entsprechendes Issue im Projekt. Daher hier die Frage, ob noch mehr Leute das Problem haben.
:BoostOK:
Edit: created issue at https://github.com/krille-chan/fluffychat/issues/1920
Please +1 if you can approve that bug.
This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live:
* #Nextcloud store shenanigans
* #Cheogram in Space-s
* #DeltaChat and #ArcaneChat fork
* #FluffyChat feature full
* #Tachiyomi successor #Kahon
* #Inure #reproducible
* #PasswordStore fork
* #ReplicantOS and #NGI
* #NewPipe out of the 360p jail
+ 12 new apps
+ 195 updates
Go beyond clouds in https://f-droid.org/2025/05/15/twif.html
Didn't realize fluffy chat let u use custom emotes 👀 has anyone made Neofox into a pack?
Tiny new feature: Checkboxes in a message.
No, I'm not gonna make it a full blown task list app 😜 but it happens quite often, that my wife sends me a list of groceries when I'm walking to the supermarket. This way I'm now able to check, what I have already in my cart so I don't forget anything.
It works by sending special reactions under the hood. So anyone with reaction sending permissions in a room can check any box from any sender.
What do you think?
Great to see #FluffyChat is still being actively developed. I remember when it was just an #UbuntuTouch app all those years ago. Now it’s multi platform. #Matrix
A long requested feature that avatars can be viewed in full screen has landed in #fluffychat together with a simplified user dialog
Gestern war ich auf der #DMEA
https://www.dmea.de/de/about/dmea/
Nur wenige Stunden, aber interessante Talks zu Themen wie #MFA, #Cloud und #Messenging im Gesundheitswesen. Hier fand ich die Präsentationen von #famedly recht interssant. Ein Anbieter von TK Messenger https://www.famedly.com/ den ich selbst auch beruflich seit einiger Zeit teste. Er nutzt das #matrix Protokoll. Und wie ich erfahren durfte, arbeitet deren Chef wohl auch mit an #fluffychat der Multiaccount Messenger.
I tried #Fluffychat on 3 different devices and on all 3 I needed a lot of patience since any action makes the app lag with animations.
I thought it was just that the smartphone's resources weren't enough (even though no other app lags), but today I have a more modern phone and the experience is the same.
I really want to use it, but the lags are driving me crazy. Hahaha
I'm proud to present a new AI feature, I've implemented in #FluffyChat. I replaced the "SEND" button with AI. It makes things so much easier. Instead of manually pushing a button to send a message like a caveman, the AI detects automatically when you finish typing and sends the input of the textfield. This leads to a much less cluttered UI and a better user experience. The error rate is minimal. 🥳
Stay tuned for more 🤖 AI features in FluffyChat implemented on a timestamp like TODAY 😄
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