Matrix

Where it stands

Built only from what we can measure or quote without using the tool. How ranking works

Read automatically from Matrix's public website: how reliable, secure, private and open the site is. This is not a test of how well the tool does its job. How this is measured

• Reliability5 / 5The page answered and finished downloading in 16 ms.
• Security5 / 54 of 5 protective headers set (strict-transport-security, x-content-type-options, referrer-policy, x-frame-options).
• Privacy5 / 5No third-party tracking services found on the page.
• Transparency1 / 5No privacy policy linked; no pricing page linked.

65% of the 48 people whose comments we could classify were positive. Read automatically from public Hacker News threads about Matrix; the classifier is simple and can misread sarcasm, so check the threads. How this works

• Positive

  “I love the idea of matrix (synapse + element + mobile apps) and I have started moving my family there too but we had so many problems with notifications not being sent to the phone unless you actively open the app. There…”

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• Positive

  “Most of criticism of XMPP with regards to fragmentation and extensions can be applied to Matrix as well. In fact, the sliding sync itself already fragments the ecosystem by not being supported out of the box by many…”

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• Critical

  “That was probably a problem with their main matrix.org homeserver, more than with the protocol or your particular client app. It was very slow for a while, until they worked out some scaling issues to handle the load.…”

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• Critical

  “Encryption in Matrix is a nightmare. I set up Synapse and pulled half a dozen or so people onto it. This alone makes Matrix the worse chat platform out there from a users perspective IMO. I invested too much effort in…”

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