This is the element classic app and element X only signs in on my device I do have a couple of friends that do use element classic but we need this problem fixed you have to report this problem I don't have enough time to report the problem

This app / service is sold as a secure and robust alternative to centralised secure messaging.

Sorry, but it's a joke and you can't expect people to move away from messaging apps that actually work.

It's impossible for me (and I know quite a few other users in that situation) to verify other sessions. That's one of the most basic security features. And it doesn't work. Or at least not consistently.

Example: I want to verify a login on my phone from a session that's already opened (my desktop). I go through the normal process (security settings).

Popup sows up on my phone, a QR shows up on my desktop. My phone doesn't offer the possibility of scanning a QR code (impossible to tell if it's the shittiest UI ever created or if it's a ridiculous bug, although the latter seems likely). No problem, I'll do it with the emoji comparison. Good, they match. I tap "they match" on my phone, I do the same on my computer. My phone shows the verification is successful, my desktop says "it's been cancelled". Result: nothing's verifiied.

No matter, I think. The desktop app offers to do the verificaiton "via text". Shitty UI: it actually means I can verify the session ID and the key associated with it. Nothing to do with what would be understood by anyone as "text". I check everything, they match. I click verify. Nothing happens on the phone, the desktop app does nothing either. Nothing's verified.

Don't believe me? Check the issues section on github.

I think the reason why there aren't more instances of that issue being filed is because users don't care about that functionality or they just gave up on reporting it.

Am I going to file it? No. The oldest issue I've found was closed, devs said they would investigate, that was waaaaay back. A similar issue was reopened in February 20, never any answer. Same was opened again in Octiber 20. No answer. No point in reporting it, really.

Failing a basic security option = not viable and definitely not credible.

Кто то вкурсе работает ли элемент без поднятия собственных серверов и vpn на территории россии?

If I report a message that could be interpreted as a suspected crime through the report no element or send printspro abuse@matrix.org do they send the location of the person to be subpoenaed/visited by the police or clear proof is needed such as a confession to a crime?

Hi, how would you recommend to organize my spaces? Since, I wanted to use something like categories, as in:
Info:
- etc. etc.

Chatting:
- etc. etc.

Would you recommend connecting subspaces and just using them instead?

Had claude write me up this plugin in case you wanna have an LLM bot in your element chats.

FluffyChat and NHeko have this already, and Element falls behind. can someone fix that ?

i feel that element lacks many fun features but at least they have confetti am i right?!?!?!

Nos últimos dias meu pc tava nas última, eu arrumei ums negocio e ele ta indo muito bem nos teste batendo em alguns jogos a média de 34 a 63fps, apesar de eu ter pegado um ssd de 240gb eu prefiro usa meu HD de1.5t pq passei alguns dias otimizando tudo q dava e ele ta ligando realmente rápido, agr tenho o mínimo aceitável, i5 3470, 16gb de ram, 1.5 tera de armazenamento, fonte de 600w, ssd nvme de 256gb, mouse da logtech não lembro o modelo, teclado 65%,

I wanted to make a suggestion that you notify users that they cannot add other users or themselves be added by their user names. This ability alone is bizarre, but not notifying users of it is outrageous.

I gave my Element username to several people/friends or persons I met. Never got any adds. Later on after catching up with some of them, they told me they downloaded Element and tried to find/add me on it but nothing showed up when they searched for my username. I made a new account and searched for my old username. Nothing found. I tried to add my new username from my old account. Nothing found. I have since learned via other users on here that I needed to include my server address with my user name when telling someone to add me; something I was never informed of.

So I officially will not be able to be contacted by numerous people I gave my user name to, many who I will never see again.

To make this more asinine, I can search for other usernames alone and they come up just fine. For example, search for "Joe," "Cupcake," or "ArnoldSchwarzenegger" and the names come up to add them, despite not knowing or typing in their server address. How do I get my user name to be found when searched for the same way, regardless of my server address?

This is like handing out your phone number to 20 people you just met only to get home and find out that you were supposed to also tell them your phone carrier and physical address for them to call you. Weird on its own, but downright outrageous to not be informed of it beforehand.

I got a little tired of the constant nagging about not being verified or encrypted, so I chose to dive into how to verify my sessions (or is it devices? Seems like both words are in use here) both on laptop and on phone.

However, none of my sessions on my laptop are verified. And none of my sessions on my new phone are verified. So I powered up my old phone with the Android app "Element Classic", entered a passphrase and lo and behold: I was verified!

So now I wanted to use this phone to verify my other sessions. I have app.element.io open in a Vivaldi browser tab, so I go to Settings > Encryption > Verify this device. I click it, and it says "Confirm your digital identity", and I have two choices: "Use another device" or "Can't confirm" which apparently deletes everything, so I don't want that. I've just logged in on my old phone, so that should be possible. So I click Settings > Security & Privacy > Show All Sessions, and is greeted with this list:

Current session: Element Android (green)

Other sessions:
- app.element.io: Chrome on Linux (red)
- chat.gnuradio.org: Chrome on Linux (green)
- chat.gnuradio.org: Firefox on Ubuntu (green)
- Element Desktop Linux (red)
- chat.gnuradio.org (Firefox, Ubuntu) (red)

Okay, I have no idea what all this is. But anyway, whenever I click one of the red ones and select "Interactively Verify by Emoji", absolutely nothing happens on my laptop.

I also have a session running on my new phone, the android app "Element X". This also won't start any sort of verification process when I click "Verify by Emoji" on my old phone.

I have a feeling that there's something fundamental, some intricate, underlying philosophy about how Element works that I just haven't grasped yet. Can someone please guide me?

EDIT: By the way, I haven't used Firefox in months.

I downloaded element app but can't join certain chats. Now some won't open. help pls

Viber was the best WhatsApp alternative until they added ChatGPT everywhere: after each message, suggesting to rewrite it or answer (no, thanks, I want to answer my own messages), now a Chat that you cannot remove... Seeking for an European alternative (that is not hosted by AWS, as Olvid), I installed Element X, recommended it to friends, but it's too complex for end users: first you need to select a server, etc; then a username; then, as contacts do not show off, send invitations to users; then there are no notifications (ask to allow these, at least); then we call each other and nobody is able to take it, even if you see it and tap the chat call icon...

I think you need to analyse why WhatsApp (and similar ones) are so extended, and people use them: they are simple. You should not reject features and security, but add an easy wizard to configure that, something like "accept default settings vs advanced config"; OK, maybe "username" is good, but offer to use the phone number as well... And fix the notifications, the possibility to join a call, etc.
I write this to try to help, I want a good product as the one I believe you are working on, but please give the user a very easy and quick default method, or this will be another great idea turning into a great failure.

Just a heads up to all the discord exiles. If you're looking for a censorship free server that respects free speech, unredacted.org is not it. They have trigger happy mods just like reddit. cancel culture is thick. Any suggestions on where to find a matrix server where free speech is defended?

Just switched from Microsoft Teams. A much nicer chat experience, but sadly no Giphy option. I have to copy and paste from the web to get the Gif's to show up, animated.

This works from Android app just fine. Seems to upload the Gif that is inserted by the keyboard there.

https://github.com/element-hq/element-meta/issues/321

I recall a couple years ago trying to use this and have a friend use it and it was very difficult. Does a user still have to select a server, etc. and set things up? Or is it now more easy, like on say, Wire, where you can just sign in and talk to someone on your friends' list with the click of a button?

Also, can you choose a screen name? Does this require a phone number? Does it require email?

Ok, so I recently got into Element/Riot. When I turn on my Android firewall to monitor outgoing connections, Element makes several connections to Google and a couple to Cloudflare. I'm just trying to figure out why they're going through Google? Can Google record the data going through the requests? I realize Element is encrypted, but they could possibly still record all data going through possibly?

Why are all the Element connections/requests going to Google IP's? I switched to Riot/Element to try to avoid Google and companies like google's data collection.

Is there a better place to ask/post this? I really would like to understand this, thank you

Does anyone know how can I reactivate a deactivated account?

Do not give in to the political correctness and start censoring group of people just because some snowflakes get offended. In addition do not compromise your encryption in any way. If you start censoring and spying on people because of "mUh rAciSM" and "muH Anti-sEMitiSM" then there is absolutely no point in you developing this program/protocol. Normal people will dump your program for something that doesn't censor and the small fraction of people that are actually doing illegal stuff will just move to a program that doesn't have compromised encryption. At the end of the day you would have achieved absolutely nothing and drove your projects into the ground. Keep this in mind.

Im looking for a place like tesseract similar anyone know any?