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Nobody has said the word "slack" yet... but am I interpreting this correctly? An open source clone of slack? If so, it's very interesting. I wonder if they are

Nobody has said the word "slack" yet... but am I interpreting this correctly? An open source clone of slack? If so, it's very interesting. I wonder if they are taking any steps towards solving the "fragmentation" issue that slack teams seem to cause. I have a few contacts that are shared between 2-3 different slack teams and I can never remember where to find my PM conversations. Edit: okay someone else did say "slack", should have refreshed the page before posting :)

Arathorn 10y ago
Vector runs on top of the Matrix protocol (matrix.org), which is built precisely to fix fragmentation - hence the name Matrix :) Anyone within the Matrix ecosystem can talk to anyone else, whether they're using Vector, another Matrix client (http://matrix.org/docs/projects/try-matrix-now.html http://matrix.org/docs/projects/try-matrix-now.html), or a bridged system like Slack, IRC, XMPP, etc. We want to open up all those silos to talk to one another.
amandine 10y ago
Vector does address the same market as Slack, with similar feature set but also leveraging Matrix to bridge to other systems like Slack, and IRC, and others soon. And yes Vector allows you to be part of several teams without switching between them. [disclaimer: I'm from Vector team]
- cshimmin 10y ago
  Thanks for the reply! To clarify, you mean to say that a single user-account can be the exact same entity on multiple teams? And so point-to-point communication is not affected by team boundaries? What about server boundaries? Can they be federated somehow? Sorry if you are trying to answer this with your point about Matrix; I'm not familiar with it. Edit: ah! Arathorn answered my question about federation. This is super cool stuff!
  - amandine 10y ago
    Yes basically the concept of closed teams doesn't exist in Vector: you are a member of different chatrooms, public or private, with other people, each having its own focus, no matter what is the project scope or the topic.

Arathorn 10y ago

Vector runs on top of the Matrix protocol (matrix.org), which is built precisely to fix fragmentation - hence the name Matrix :) Anyone within the Matrix ecosystem can talk to anyone else, whether they're using Vector, another Matrix client (http://matrix.org/docs/projects/try-matrix-now.html http://matrix.org/docs/projects/try-matrix-now.html), or a bridged system like Slack, IRC, XMPP, etc. We want to open up all those silos to talk to one another.

amandine 10y ago

Vector does address the same market as Slack, with similar feature set but also leveraging Matrix to bridge to other systems like Slack, and IRC, and others soon. And yes Vector allows you to be part of several teams without switching between them. [disclaimer: I'm from Vector team]

cshimmin 10y ago
Thanks for the reply! To clarify, you mean to say that a single user-account can be the exact same entity on multiple teams? And so point-to-point communication is not affected by team boundaries? What about server boundaries? Can they be federated somehow? Sorry if you are trying to answer this with your point about Matrix; I'm not familiar with it. Edit: ah! Arathorn answered my question about federation. This is super cool stuff!
- amandine 10y ago
  Yes basically the concept of closed teams doesn't exist in Vector: you are a member of different chatrooms, public or private, with other people, each having its own focus, no matter what is the project scope or the topic.