Developer of ArcaneChat (https://arcanechat.me/)

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Cake day: February 7th, 2021

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  • difference with Delta Chat: the videocall buttons and icons uses a video-camera icon instead of a phone-call icon which can cause unexpected situations “woahhh I was thinking it was an audio call and picked it but a video of me was sent out”

    PRO TIP: you can click the notification (without clicking “answer” button) or the incoming call message bubble in the chat to open the call in preview mode and be able to disable video/audio before picking/answering the call











    • ArcaneChat/DeltaChat apk size is way smaller, Element X is ~130MB
    • reactions are not encrypted in Matrix, plus often problems with “unable to decrypt”
    • with the money you need to run a matrix server you can run a lot of chatmail servers, the cost per user is much lower
    • matrix servers hold a lot of metadata, ex. group metadata and state, it is almost impossible to really delete information from the matrix server, the chatmail servers are dumb, know nothing about delta chat groups and all data is volatile, only stored temporarily for multi-device synchronization
    • ArcaneChat/DeltaChat have good multi-device and multi-profile support, IIRC Element only support one profile?

    and more, but to be honest I feel lazy to reply because the answer seems so obvious to me, just search a bit, and I am not even touching the part of the proprietary integration server… matrix is on a path to doom