• Kichae@lemmy.ca
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    You log in, confirm it with another device (better hope it’s nearby! That first setup of a 2nd client is a doozy of a feel bad, if it isn’t), then a few days later it just stops letting you do anything, doesn’t really tell you what to do about it, and you have to reconfirm with a 2ne device all over again (which, again, had better be nearby).

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      Yeah, I do wish they just let you disable encryption for all rooms at a server level. But years ago people gave the team so much shit for not supporting encryption that they added really good encryption, but it makes things harder. Nothing is free.

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      1 year ago

      You log in, confirm it with another device (better hope it’s nearby! That first setup of a 2nd client is a doozy of a feel bad, if it isn’t),

      Your devices don’t have to be nearby to verify them. You can enter a key backup passphrase instead.

      then a few days later it just stops letting you do anything,

      That’s not normal. Looks like you ran into a bug. Did you report it, so it can be tracked and fixed?

      I gather from their weekly reports that they’ve been fixing encryption bugs lately, and that the clients now in testing (the Element X code base) seem to have them solved. You might want to try those, or one of the third-party clients.

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        1 year ago

        The new Rust library is really solid. Once things start moving to that instead of rolling their own, it will get a lot more smooth.