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The application was called Riot earlier and went through a rebranding in July 2020: https://element.io/blog/welcome-to-element/ https://element.io/blog/welcome
by pw6hv 6y ago
The application was called Riot earlier and went through a rebranding in July 2020:
https://element.io/blog/welcome-to-element/ https://element.io/blog/welcome-to-element/
- agilob 6y agoIt also called Vector before.
- meowface 6y agoI suppose it's safe to assume a horrific atomic accident is on the horizon?
- monopoledance 6y agoBoth sound better than 'element' to me. "Comms app" isn't exactly what I expect to be 'atomic', or 'simple', either. Aaand "Element Matrix Services"? bitch, please... XD 'Element' is so un-cybery, feels dated. First association is Bam Margera and teenage skateboard consumer culture. The uncool one, lacking punk rock and attitude. Such a 2000s word. Anyway, naming things is hard and annoying, so I am glad they found something _they like <3
- kitkat_new 6y agouncybery describes it well
- Shared404 6y agoI agree. I believe the change in name was at least partially to make it easier for IT to sell to management. I don't envy the person trying to convince their manager to switch to Riot.
- monopoledance 6y agoBut 'vector' sounds fine and cyber. Or 'scalar'. They could at least go with 'LMNT' (leet manager's new tool) and make the logo a cyber ambigram, like this: ` |_|\|\|¯| `. As you can see, I do sympathize with their struggles XD
- Shared404 6y agoIIRC, I saw in a discussion somewhere that most of the math related names are already taken, and Vector was moved off of for search rankings or some such thing. And yeah, Element is a pretty boring name.
- smichel17 6y agoThe name grew on me quite a bit once I thought of the phrase, "in my element".
- cush 6y agoRiot is an awful name for any serious communication platform