I turn it off and use Discord again. I know they are fundamentally distinct, but I am not willing to trade in ease of use (which is really REALLY awful) for privacy, and certainly not trading anything for having a distributed system.
You can't even do direct file transfer. There's a feature request open for YEARS... Yet nobody bothers to push it through.
I feel like that’s completely stopped.
For example, I’m still waiting for reasonable documentation to be published about how to deploy and use Element Call, which has apparently been generally available for over a year.
Fwiw, the DB isn't corrupted - the database 2ndary dropped its RAID array on having new disks added (the hw raid controller incorrectly added them into the array, breaking it)... and a few hours later we lost the primary db too. The outage is caused by the time taken to restore & rebuild a 55T db from nightly snapshot.
In terms of lack of documentation for running Element Call: i published a tutorial & video run-through myself back in November: https://element.io/blog/experimenting-with-matrix-2-0-using-... and https://github.com/element-hq/element-docker-demo and https://youtu.be/6iMi5BiQcoI. Or you could just run it via Element Server Suite: https://element.io/server-suite/community
In terms of "Element X has a 10th of the functionality of classic Element" - with respect, this is bullshit. The only features folks complain about missing are Threads & Spaces, both of which are have implementations behind feature flags and will land shortly. In all other respects Element X is a wild improvement over classic Element.
Fwiw, there's another HN thread on this over at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45107696
You really, truly should look at ZFS.
... oof.
What happened and why? Any pointers to read more on this?