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I've never used Matrix and I'd love a replacement for Slack/Discord. But hearing "I generally steer them towards the Element clients" is going to be a huge turn
by servercobra 6y ago
I've never used Matrix and I'd love a replacement for Slack/Discord. But hearing "I generally steer them towards the Element clients" is going to be a huge turnoff for a lot of non-tech people. Even as a tech user, I don't really want to compare and research different clients to figure out which is best.
- Evidlo 6y agoWhat's preventing you from picking one at random, then?
- mircea 6y agoThe Paradox of Choice.
- feanaro 6y agoWhat do you propose to do instead? To actively prevent people from creating clients for the protocol? The Element clients are the closest to what you could consider official clients, being made by the Element company, which does most of the Matrix design and development.
- ryukafalz 6y agoImagine you've never heard of Gmail before. How does "I generally steer them towards the Gmail clients" sound if someone asks you about email?
- thekyle 6y agoI don't think that's a good example since Gmail is an email provider which can be used with any email client. Element is a Matrix client that can connect to a matrix provider.
- ohmaigad 6y agoThe difference is in marketing. Gmail is a service with its own official app and so on. Matrix is a protcol, you can't market a protocol to regular people. Other than techies, nobody cares how their chat works as long it works so if you want to gain traction you market Element as the new hot messaging app and not Matrix the protocol.
- ryukafalz 6y agoIsn't it pretty well understood that Gmail is an email service though?