- Conduit
- Conduwuit
- Tuwunel
- Continuwuity
There’s too many of them!
Which one would you recommend and why?
Continuwuity. I’m using it. And contrary to other projects, it’s a community effort. So I have my hopes up it’ll last and not depend on any singular person.
And I wouldn’t recommend Conduit or Conduwuit. Conduit development is very slow, that’s why we got the forks in the first place. And Conduwuit is discontinued, so it wouldn’t be wise choice at all. So you’re left with 2 choices, Tuwunel and Continuwuity. One is a one-man show and they’re calling it the “official” successor. The other one is a community project… They both work fine.
Ive used 3 of the 4 and have been on Continuwuity for about a year, no complaints.
Having a great time with Tuwunel, although it is deployed on and handled by yunohost, and my instance is text only. I wanted to try to set up voice calls, but the docs are going over my head-- it seems like so much to do in order to get calls working.
Thanks! Which client are you using? Does Tuwunel work well with Element X?
Quick update: I might actually swap over to Continuwuity, since I heard that the Tuwunel developer isn’t the kindest person: https://forgejo.ellis.link/continuwuation/continuwuity/issues/849#issuecomment-16130
In the time since, however, Jason has made threats against multiple members of our team, so I can’t foresee any active collaboration.
Shame, since the server works (although Continuwuity might be better set up for Element Call as well)
It seems to work well from what I’ve seen, but I mostly use cinny! I’ve been trying out element X, fluffychat, cinny, and commet-- I just like cinny the most, since it seems to work best with the spaces.
Cinny is great as long as you don’t need any voice chats, although that will be added in very soon (along with threads, better grouping of subspaces, etc). There are open pull requests that just need to be reviewed and merged in, and there are links in its github to preview the features of the PRs.
I’ve been using Continuwuity for a bit. Its pretty solid, but its not quite as smooth as Synapse in some ways. I’ve used several different clients successfully with it, but the pain of syncing the encryption is a real turn off. It needs to be MUCH smoother if matrix wants real adoption by non-techies.
Thanks! Is syncing the encryption better with Synapse or is it a general matrix thing? Because I’ve really had enough of it
I am also interested in the answer. I’ve tried Conduit and it was easy to deploy, but I had trouble with search and new user registration. Now I’m trying Continuwuity and new user registration still isn’t working for some reason.
Thanks for sharing your experience! Have you tried using Element X with either of those? I’ve tried Conduit but I wasn’t getting invites to new rooms on Element X with it. I guess it might be related to this sliding synch thing.
Yes, using Element X. I haven’t been able to figure out the problem yet.
I seem to remember that you can sign in, but not register, with Element X and continuwuity. Should be fine with web/desktop clients.
I needed to make a chat server for a bunch of normie extended family members. They need an easy to use mobile chat. Registering on PC complicates things. Then adding the mobile client for authorised encrypted messaging wasn’t really going to be realistic for everyone to do.
If anyone knows of a chat/voice/video self hosted app thats easy to deploy and use, I would be very interested in any suggested solution. Vocechat was not easy to deploy or get voice chat working…and the app sucks.
I agree that it should be easier. The problem comes from the element mobile apps migrating to a new registration flow that homeservers other than synapse haven’t finished implementing yet.
If you use continuwuity, and it’s few users, you could create users via the admin room. Then login should work. Still, annoying workaround.
And yeah, setting up LiveKit is a bit annoying. Maybe someone’ll make a compose flow that combines all of them, but I am too lazy rn, and I haven’t seen any from anyone else yet.
