why on earth are you using a centralised chat product for Solid?! Please at least give https://riot.im a go - you can bridge it straight into Gitter for people who like the gitter UI :)

On a side note, Riot is a site with really annoying animation.

Whatever else it may be, the animation banner just killed it for me.

In the same vein as this discussion, you can actually set up your own client - and tweak it to suit your needs, such as removing any banners, adjusting style, etc. - and still interact with others via matrix.org protocol.

It was just the website, not their software. The website put me off going any further.

>why on earth are you using a decentralised chat product for Solid?!

Assuming you meant centralised here? ;)

oops... decentralisation on the brain; fixed!