Let’s not lie to ourselves about it : Matrix is slow.
But, that’s fine ! All we need is a client that adapts to it.
For example : when trying to join a room. All clients, Element and otherwise, display a modal. If it takes forever, then you can’t do anything in the meantime.
Instead, a slow-friendly app would : add the channel to the channel list, saying ⟳ Joining... | You'll receive a notification once having successfully joined this room.
There, non-blocking.
Same for :
- changing notification preferences ;
- accepting/declining chat requests ;
Etc.
Cinny isn’t immune to Synapse’s slowness, even with sliding sync.
@KaKi87
It doesn’t use sliding sync, but it is slow friendly (from what I can tell) and faster than Element.
ElementX is the only one that’s faster as far as I know, but it has half the features and only works on phones, so I don’t know why anyone recommends it.
Joining rooms isn’t non-blocking.
@KaKi87
From my admittedly very informal testing Cinny lets you do other stuff while you’re joining a room.
If that isn’t non-blocking, I don’t know what is.
If you need a screen recording, I can make one.