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(Desktop 1.11.34) Edit events increase unread count, and like in (2) there isn't even any way to find out what was edited besides educated guessing
(Desktop 1.11.34) New messages in threads increase unread count, but there is no easy way to get to the thread that had a new message (like it is for clicking on the room for normal messages)
(Desktop 1.11.34) Thread view is stuffed into the same sidebar as other auxiliary info. I want auxiliary info to be narrow, and the thread view to be wide (ideally replacing the normal view when I'm in a thread); right now this requires constant manual resizing
(Android 1.5.32 no GMS) Notifications sometimes/often arrive in batches hours after the messages arrived on Desktop Element and I responded to them later
(Android 1.5.32) If I lock my phone with Element open on it and unlock it later, sometimes Element blocks without any redraw or indication for >>seconds, which causes the overall OS UI to behave weirdly and not let me do much
(Desktop 1.11.34) Rooms are sorted unread first, without a setting I could find, meaning that if I want to quickly click through a few rooms in a space with unread messages, the order changes in a surprising way while I'm doing it

Looks like a setting is there, in a "..." button that appears only when hovering the title of the expandable header. That's not very discoverable! There is another "+" button right next to it that doesn't disappear so at a glance you would not expect there to sometimes be two of them!!!


(Desktop 1.11.34) Making (1) and (2) worse, there is no "Mark all as read" for an entire space
(Desktop 1.11.34) Making (2) even worse, "Mark all as read" on channel doesn't seem to clear thread unread notification (?!). Opening the right thread manually did clear it.
(Desktop 1.11.34) Suddenly getting notifications for a whole bunch of months old threads with no activity for seemingly no reason

This actually happened twice over the course of a few days? The first time I hit "Mark all as read" and like a week later it's back. Ironically, I think that one of the threads that got an unread notification this time was a thread where a coworker mentioned getting a bunch of spurious notifications the previous time it happened

Oh the reason it's "back" is because of (8), it just didn't actually mark them as read


(Desktop 1.11.34) If you click on the Matrix identifier of someone you do not have a DM room with, you get presented with a screen that has a huge green "Send a Direct Message" button. It does not send a direct message to that person; it just opens a dialog with an empty input field. You have to notice that the sidebar (which normally contains unimportant info you ignore at all times when not specifically clicking on something) has a tiny "Message" link that is what you want.
(Desktop 1.11.34) I called a counterparty, they joined, Element blinked "Cannot decrypt a message received from X" but the call did not actually establish even as there was "X has joined the call" shown in the left sidebar as the last received event
(Desktop 1.11.36) For some reason https://matrix-client.matrix.org started returning error 401 to requests and instead of showing some kind of UI, Element simply kept trying as if wrong Authorization: header was a temporary error.
(Desktop 1.11.38, new in this version) The background of a call behind the profile picture is inverted compared to the theme (dark on light theme, light on dark theme). I love being blasted in my face with bright light from an UI element that mostly serves no purpose (I'd much rather have it be small in the channel, or see only the buttons).