In-browser usage of @SlackHQ is getting worse and worse. The past few months it seems to sign me out of all my slacks every few weeks, directing me to a page that doesn't tell me the name of the slack that I got signed out of. So I need to remember 7 names to stay signed in.

Slack is amazingly bad software. It often gets incredibly slow in Firefox for some reason. I like Mozilla's Matrix instance a lot more.

I just cannot get used to matrix's UI. When I see: Alice 👩 Bob👨: ... Bob👨: ... Bob👨: ... Bob👨: ... by line 2 or 3 I'm convinced it's stuff Bob said (esp. given the photo!), and I get the whole conversation confused.

Here's an example; towards the bottom, even though I can explain what the UI pieces all are, my brain insists that the 15:05 and following 15:06 lines were said by @heycam and not @ecbos_. And I don't see settings to improve this...

Even sometimes the 15:04 line, honestly...

we’re still working through implementing wll the mozilla UI feedback; for instance we just added an IRC layout to Riot just for this. @davidbarron: on riot.im/develop go to Labs in settings and see if it fixes it?

fwiw, here's how that looks in IRC layout:

I think I still find that confusing. I think the key problem is the visual separation of the username mention from the rest of the text of the message, which makes it look like a separate piece of the UI. Slack doesn't have that problem; it looks like a link.