I wish xmpp would be as wide spread as matrix. It is so much more lightweight (prosody vs synapse) and doesn't make requests to anything else than the people i chat with.
Yea I'm always depressed by how long it takes the Element client to refresh (update the history of) a medium number of subscribed channels.
It's just text messages, why does it take so long?
Same, it feels so sluggish and slow compared to xmpp clients, even in small private chats, public rooms on matrix are on another level of unusable. Also that element is the only client that supports all features, would love to switch something more lightweight but most of them have some features missing (that i would miss) or even e2ee missing.
Kind of funny that your name matches an e2ee matrix proxy. https://github.com/matrix-org/pantalaimon