The one silver lining of commercial apps shitting the bed (or shitting on their users) is that it helps accelerate development of FOSS/decentralized/federated alternatives because of the sudden interest.

I was immediately gonna comment "but does it support element-call" and to my surprise:

Supporting both, 1:1 calls over WebRTC, and voice channels with MatrixRTC + LiveKit

So to my knowledge this is the first client thats not an element fork that supports the new call system 🎉

Looks like it was added only a week ago, so maybe there will be some bugs, but still im very happy to finally see this in an independent client.

God please let matrix figure out text channels and better calling 🙏

Maybe that would help because I have a really hard time understanding how matrix works. 

Looks good actually.. I think I will keep using Element for now.. but for new people joining matrix coming from Discord, I would definitely recommend trying out Commet.

It's cool that it "supports threads", but - as so many other clients - it forgets to actually expose threads! As in: once the initial comment starting a thread slides up in the chat, the only way to access the thread is to scroll all the way up there again.

Fake edit: OK, Commet shows all threads if you type "thread" in search. Still, having a button to do just that would be infinitely better.

Also: no support for polls? :(

Thank you so much! Always down to try a new matrix client. So much potential.

But no friends list :(

No macOS or iOS support, but looks clean.

Is there a reason for not being centrally distributed like on flathub and fdroid?

Saving this post for later when the inevitable happens.

This looks promising. For my self host/privacy friends, this one simply has unifiedpush support (simple-x still hasn't).

PS. This app isn't listed here: https://unifiedpush.org/users/apps/ Time to tell them.

Thanks, that actually looks like a nice android alternative to cinny

Maybe I am just stupid but I can't verify my commet session.

The ui still kind of feels unpolished in commet. I tried it out two days ago, but ended up going with element instead. Just felt better to use

Ugh. Another one that doesn't support OIDC.

Is there a reason the room icons have to be humongous, at least in the web version on PC?

Other than that, looks great.

My best friend used to go by @comet on Discord. He's the one who made my friend group's server, and he's essentially the only reason I ever got it in the first place (now, he's one of the first to join my Matrix instance). The fact that this project is named Commet is NOT good for my "main character syndrome"!

Interesting, I'll have to check how it compares to Cinny.

Flutter? No thanks

Saved for later, will probably try once it publishes to flathub.