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I wrote some docs that helped my small podcast community transition from Discord to Matrix. (codeberg.org)

submitted 1 day ago by bluelander@lemmy.ml to c/matrix@lemmy.ml

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We just switched my podcast community from Discord to Matrix and I've spent the last two weeks onboarding people.

I wrote these as a veteran Discord user just delving into Matrix and tried my best to frame things in a very Discord-centric way to help people understand the concepts in Matrix. It seemed to help some people.

Anyway, posting here in case they're of use to anyone else.

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[–] bluelander@lemmy.ml 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

This was one of the larger hurdles for me as an admin.

Rooms are their own discreet entity. While they may be organized into your space, they exists as their own thing.

So properly setting who can and can't create rooms is crucial. If I'm allowed to make rooms in your space then absolutely I can make a room that you're not the admin in. You'd need to remove it server side if that's a thing you needed to do.

Spaces aren't even exclusive. You can link in rooms from other spaces and they can exist in their original space as well as the new linked one.

As far as users seeing rooms, if the rooms are set to visible for space members then they need to join the space. Once done they can see them from the space's home.

The Matrix.org page touches on the basics here: https://matrix.org/docs/communities/getting-started/

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

That's disappointing. Do you happen to know if fixing this up to work as expected is on the roadmap? Or something they've acknowledged and specifically rejected? Or no idea yet?

I've just come across this quite recent Reddit thread and have to be honest...it's pretty much hit the nail on the head for me. Both the OP and many of the comments. bibober's comment in particular.

If it's just a lack of resources to develop these features quickly enough, that's cool. But I'll be extremely disappointed if they've decided that these are use cases they specifically don't care about.

[–] bluelander@lemmy.ml 1 points 22 hours ago

It works as expected as far as Matrix is concerned. From what I can tell the aim and goals are just quite different from what a platform like Discord is going for.

If you're going in wanting/expecting a perfect Discord replacement then it's just not going to be that and doesn't seem to want to be that either. Hence the need for onboarding documentation.

If you're unable to make the mental shift to it such that it can work for you then there are other platforms that might more closely conform to what you're after. We tried Stoat, Zulip, and Root before ultimately deciding on Matrix.