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Element has been removed from the play store (twitter.com)
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Google have suspended Element in the Play Store without notifying us; we're reaching out to find out what's going on. Apologies for the inconvenience; in the interim there's https://f-droid.org/en/packages/im.vector.app/ but it's a few versions behind. We'll post updates here.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

A good alternative for mobile is Fluffy Chat which is a lot more responsive and has a smoother UX in my opinion. The developers of Fluffy are also VERY fast to fix bugs and they don't cram their client with all the features, only the features which are really needed and don't break the UX.

Of course Element can't be good because it's a reference client, but that's also not its primary objective. The primary objective Element seems to have is to cater to each and everyone with all the features to catch attention and make shareholders happy.

That sounds pretty bad but I'm happy Matrix and Element exist and that they both have an active and helpful community.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago

The problem I saw with Fluffy was using non-free parts as Google Play services when I tested it not so much ago even with their custom F-Droid repository.